Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Koki Nakamura

Hiroyuki Hasegawa

Yusuke Yamashita

Tokuro Nishida

Kazuya Kitamura

Kengo Takeuchi

Tatsuya Nakamura

Atsushi Mizutome

Hisato Sekine

Akimori Hayashi

Shunsuke Kawahara

Kazuki Hosoi

Norifumi Kashiyama

A generation unit generates a background separation image in which regions of a captured image are classified as a foreground region, a background region, and an unknown region, based on distance distribution information obtained from a plurality of parallax images. An output unit outputs the captured image and the background separation image. A region in which a distance in the distance distribution information is within a first range is classified as the foreground region. A region in which a distance in the distance distribution information is outside a second range broader than the first range is classified as the background region. A region in which a distance in the distance distribution information is outside the first range and inside the second range is classified as the unknown region.

Generating Trimap from distance information using an image plane phase detection sensor

An image processing apparatus comprising: a plurality of output units outputting arithmetic operation results; a memory storing instructions; and a processor executing the instructions causing the image processing apparatus to: acquire images from a plurality of mutually different viewpoints, perform an arithmetic operation for converting the acquired images into distance information, and perform control to output arithmetic operation results from the plurality of output units, wherein the processor assigns the plurality of arithmetic operation results requiring different amounts of arithmetic operation obtained in the arithmetic operation process to the plurality of output units, and selectively switches the arithmetic operation results to be assigned in accordance with an operation condition of the image processing apparatus.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium

An image processing device that can facilitate setting related to layer information based on distance information is provided. The image processing device includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image including a subject through a lens unit, a distance information acquisition unit configured to acquire distance information indicating a distance to the subject, a layer information generation unit configured to generate layer information on a layer for each distance based on the distance information, and a setting unit configured to set a reference for generating the layer information and switch display of a setting value capable of being set in accordance with the lens information of the lens unit.

Image processing device, image processing method, and storage medium

An image sensor comprises: a pixel region including a plurality of microlenses arranged in a matrix, and a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions provided for each of the microlenses; a plurality of amplifiers that apply a plurality of different gains to signals output from the pixel region; and a scanning circuit that scans the pixel region so that a partial signal and an added signal are read out, the partial signal being a signal from some of the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions, and the added signal being a signal obtained by adding the signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion portions.

Image sensor, image capturing apparatus and image processing apparatus

An image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensor that outputs a first added signal and a first average partial signal amplified by a first gain, and a second added signal and a second averaged partial signal amplified by a second gain, a processing unit that generates a third added signal by synthesizing the first and second added signals with a first ratio and a third averaged partial signal by synthesizing the first and second averaged partial signals with a second or third ratio, a determination unit that determines the first ratio based on the first or second added signal and determines the second ratio based on the first ratios, and changes the second ratio of a pixel group that includes a pixel corresponding to the saturated first or second added signal to the third ratio, which is not based on the first ratio.

Image capturing apparatus and control method thereof

When image data having a size larger than a size transmittable in a predetermined format is to be transmitted, an image transmission apparatus divides the image data in a raster scanning direction in a unit of a predetermined number of pixels and sequentially allocates the image data of the unit of a predetermined number of pixels to a plurality of divided images in an order of the raster scanning direction to divide the image data into the plurality of divided images, and outputs the plurality of divided images through a plurality of transmission paths.

Image transmission apparatus and control method thereof

A display apparatus, according to the present invention, that displays an image by causing a backlight to emit light at an emission brightness value in accordance with brightness of the image, the display apparatus comprises: an input unit that inputs an image signal; a division unit that divides one frame period into a plurality of sub-frame periods when one frame of the image signal includes a plurality of images having different brightness; and a display controlling unit that performs control of switching between the plurality of images for each sub-frame period and displaying the images.

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Koki Nakamura