Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Kiyoshi Kusama

Kunihiro Yamamoto

Kentaro Matsumoto

Miyuki Enokida

Takuya Kotani

Takashi Hanamoto

Yasuo Fukuda

Makoto Takaoka

Shigetada Kobayashi

Shigeki Yamada

Yasuhiko Hashimoto

Naoki Matsuki

Hiroshi Ohwada

An image processing apparatus comprises an image processing unit configured to execute image processing which involves a change in a boundary shape of image data; a face detection unit configured to detect a face region included in the image data; a setting unit configured to set a parameter of the image processing; and a determination unit configured to determine whether or not to execute the image processing or whether or not to output a warning in accordance with the parameter of the image processing set by the setting unit and a position of the face region detected by the face detection unit.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and program

This invention makes it possible to obtain an enlarged image while suppressing noise and maintaining the sharpness of an original image only by setting a simple enlargement ratio without no special knowledge. Original image data (Ia) is enlarged in accordance with a set enlargement ratio (E) to generate an enlarged image (IA). The enlarged image (IA) is smoothed by using a smoothing filter with a size depending on the enlargement ratio (E) to generate smoothed image data (IB). Difference image data (IC) is generated by calculating the difference between the enlarged image data (IA) and the smoothed image data (IB). The generated difference image data is multiplied by an emphasis coefficient. The product is added to the enlarged image data, thereby obtaining image data (IS) that has undergone enlargement/unsharp masking.

Image processing apparatus and control method thereof

An image processing apparatus corrects a shot image which is captured by an image capturing apparatus including an image sensor having a plurality of pixels arrayed two-dimensionally and on which a shadow of a foreign substance adhering to an optical element placed in front of the image sensor is captured. This apparatus includes an interpolation unit which performs interpolation processing of interpolating a signal of a pixel corresponding to the shadow of the foreign substance with a signal of a neighboring pixel, a designation unit which inputs an instruction to cause the interpolation unit to perform the interpolation processing, and a control unit which causes the interpolation unit to perform the interpolation processing, and when the interpolation unit has not performed the interpolation processing, causes the interpolation unit to re-execute the interpolation processing upon changing a parameter for the interpolation processing or an algorithm for the interpolation processing.

Image processing apparatus, control method therefor, and program

Printing apparatus including a layout setting screen. The layout setting screen includes a layout selection area for displaying choices of a layout corresponding to a selected print media, a list display area for displaying a list of printing previews of a plurality of pages in accordance with the selected layout, and a preview display area for displaying the printing preview of the page selected in the list display area, on a larger scale than that in the list display area. If the choice of the layout in the layout selection area is changed while the layout setting screen is being displayed, the apparatus changes the display in each of the list display area and the preview display area to a display corresponding to the layout of the changed choice.

Printing apparatus, printing method, image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and program

To generating a mosaic image by combining a plurality of material images, an original image is divided into tiles and a material image having a characteristic similar to that of an image in each tile is applied to the tile. If more than one version of image data having different resolutions is provided as the image data for the material image, a low-resolution version of the image data is used to calculate a characteristic quantity of the image. Thus, the amount of time required to generate the mosaic image can be reduced.

Method, apparatus, and storage media for image processing

According to the present invention, in a borderless printing mode, a printing region is determined from an original image, a region expanded outward is determined for borderless printing based on the determined region. When the thus determined region exceeds the region of the original image, an image in the surplus portion is extrapolated based on an image at end portions of the original image, and printing data is formed based on the extrapolated image and image data of the expanded region.

Image processing method and apparatus, storage medium, and program

An image processing apparatus, method, program and recording medium can arrange images concentrically with respect to a circular label. image data and a type of an arrangement pattern of image data are selected and the shape and the arrangement of images are changed in accordance with the number of image data selected and a type of arrangement pattern selected so as to generate post-arrangement image data.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, program for implementing image processing method, and recording medium recording program

Binary data to which meta-data is to be appended, and meta-data to be appended to the binary data are loaded. The meta-data has an XML format. The loaded meta-data is connected after the loaded binary data. The data synthesized in this manner is output as a single file as a whole. In this file data, since header information remains the same as that before connection of the meta-data, binary data can be reproduced by an existing browser or the like. A binary file with meta-data can be discriminated by checking if data in a correct XML format is present at the end of data.

Data processing method and apparatus

In conventional technique, a layout result is displayed on only one page, and a print result cannot be roughly observed by reduced display of all pages. For this reason, a specific image printed on a specific page cannot be overlooked, and a user must print the image while imaging an image result. When a user tries to change a layout method in the middle of a printing operation, the user must inconveniently restart the operation. In order to solve the problem, a printing apparatus for printing an image selected from images stored in a storage medium includes an image display unit for displaying the image in the storage medium as a list, a printing object selection unit for selecting an image to be printed with reference to the image display unit, a print medium selection unit for selecting medium on which the image is printed, and a print layout selection unit for selecting an arbitrary layout from layouts depending on the medium selected by the print medium selection unit.

A plurality of images and image features of each of the plurality of images are stored in a form correlated with the images in an external storage device of an image retrieval apparatus. In retrieval of a desired image from the plurality of images that have been stored in the external storage device, a plurality of image features regarding one image are acquired by varying, over a predetermined range, each of the image features that have been stored in the external storage device. A fuzzy image search is conducted by calculating the degree of similarity between each of the plurality of images and a retrieval source image based upon the image features that have been acquired and the image features of the retrieval-source image.

Image retrieval method and apparatus

A data processing device first reads directory data provided for each directory by a file management system which manages files using a directory structure. When meta-data to be attached to the directory data is written in proper XML format, the device appends the meta-data to the end of the read directory data, and outputs the entirety of the data obtained thereby as a directory data file. By appending the meta-data to the end of the directory data in this way, meta-data can be registered by directory with respect to existing data managed by the directory, without affecting existing applications.

Data processing method and data processing device

Various recording apparatuses and methods, each capable of repeatedly attaching the same meta-data as information related to binary data to a plurality of binary data to generate a plurality of binary data having meta-data. A first recording apparatus generates binary data by image sensing and also generate meta-data as information related to the binary data. This apparatus can repeatedly attach the same meta-data generated to the generated binary data to easily generate a plurality of binary data having meta-data. A second recording apparatus loads and uses binary data instead of generating it and can generate meta-data and repeatedly attach the same meta-data to a plurality of loaded binary data to easily generate binary data having meta-data. A third recording apparatus can generate the meta-data using a dedicated meta-data generation apparatus, store the meta-data in a storage medium, and load and use the meta-data from the storage medium, and also generate binary data and repeatedly attach the same meta-data loaded to generated binary data to easily generate a plurality of binary data having meta-data.

Recording apparatus and method and storage medium

There is provided a binary data storage method and device and a storage medium which, upon duplicating binary data stored in an external storage medium into a data storage device, is capable of generating inside the data storage device a folder having a name which is appropriate for the data without the user having to perform manipulations or confirm the content of the data. The existence of still image data inside a memory card is confirmed and the existence of meta data inside the memory card is confirmed, a folder having a name based on the meta data is generated in a HDD inside the binary data storage device, the still image data inside the memory card is read out and the still image data is duplicated into the generated folder, producing the result that when the still image data inside the memory card is duplicated or stored into the binary data storage device a folder having a name which is appropriate for the data is generated inside the binary data storage device without the user having to perform manipulations or confirm the content of the data.

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Tokyo, Japan

Kiyoshi Kusama