Canon Kabushiki Kaisha

Victor Company of Japan, Limited

Jvc Kenwood Corporation

Tetsuya Suwa

Yusuke Hashii

Fumihiro Goto

Masao Kato

Fumitaka Goto

Akitoshi Yamada

Hidetsugu Kagawa

Kentaro Yano

Mitsuhiro Ono

Tomokazu Ishikawa

Shinjiro Hori

Hiroyuki Sakai

Tohru Ikeda

Manabu Yamazoe

Takashi Nakamura

Takashi Fujita

Takao Aichi

Hiroyasu Kunieda

Kiyoshi Umeda

Naoki Sumi

Hisashi Ishikawa

Seiji Higurashi

Nobutaka Miyake

Minako Kato

Satoshi Wada

Ryosuke Iguchi

Takayuki Sugahara

Takeshi Yazawa

Makoto Torigoe

Okinori Tsuchiya

Kazuhiro Saito

Shigeyasu Nagoshi

Hirokazu Ishii

Nobuyuki Matsumoto

Arata Miyagi

Wakako Tanaka

Yumi Yanai

Maya Yazawa

Shuhei Ogawa

Nobuo Ogura

Akihiko Uekusa

Kazuyuki Masumoto

Tetsuya Kawanabe

Yugo Mochizuki

Akihiko Hamamoto

Makoto Hibi

Ayumi Hori

Masato Oshima

Yuto Kajiwara

Hiromitsu Akiba

Tomokazu Yanai

Takuya Tsushima

Takashi Shinozaki

Hiroyuki Kitamura

Masaji Yoshida

Kosuke Kinoshita

Fumihiro Gotoh

Tomoyuki Watanabe

Kouta Murasawa

Yoichi Takada

Makoto Fujiwara

Yoshinori Kawai

Kei Yoshizawa

Noriyasu Asaki

Yoshiko Iida

Kazuya Imafuku

Tomoyuki Shindo

Jin Ogasawara

Hiroshi Nishiumi

Motomu Takada

Hayato Nakao

Hideo Tsuru

Shohei Odan

An image processing apparatus including a determining unit configured to determine, based on at least one of a first conversion characteristic or a second conversion characteristic, a conversion characteristic of each of a plurality of regions in a first image having a first dynamic range, and a conversion unit configured to convert an image of each of the plurality of regions into a second image having a second dynamic range less than the first dynamic range by using the conversion characteristic determined by the determining unit. In relation to input luminance and output luminance, the first conversion characteristic has a higher characteristic of maintaining tone than the second conversion characteristic, and has a lower characteristic of maintaining contrast than the second conversion characteristic.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that generate a blended conversion characteristic

A storage apparatus includes a biological sensor configured to detect biological information on a user, an image acquisition unit configured to acquire, from an image capturing unit, an image that is captured around the user, an image processing unit configured to separate the image around the user into a line-of-sight direction image related to an image in a line-of-sight direction of the user and a peripheral image related to an image other than the line-of-sight direction image, an encryption unit configured to generate an encryption key for encrypting the line-of-sight direction image based on the biological information on the user, and encrypts the line-of-sight direction image by using the encryption key, and a storage control unit configured to store the line-of-sight direction image that is encrypted by the encryption unit in a storage unit.

Storage apparatus, storage method, and computer-readable storage medium

An information processing apparatus includes a first acquisition unit to acquire input image data, a second acquisition unit to acquire display luminance information including maximum and minimum luminance values in displaying on a display device and print luminance information including maximum and minimum luminance values to be reproduced on printed matter outputted by a printing apparatus, and a conversion unit, to cause the printing apparatus to perform the output based on the input image data for which display is performed on the display device, to convert a first luminance range of the input image data to a second luminance range that is less than the first and, then, to generate output image data having the second luminance range. The minimum luminance value of the display luminance information is greater than the minimum luminance value of the print luminance information.

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and storage medium for storing program in which a minimum luminance value of display luminance information is greater than that of print luminance information

A display device includes a display in which an image is displayed; an output controller configured to display an image in the display; an imager configured to capture an image of an object present within a field of view of a user; a visually recognized object identifying unit configured to identify, based on the captured image, a type of the object present within the field of view of the user; and a visual recognition count identifying unit configured to, based on an identification result by the visually recognized object identifying unit, identify a visual recognition count indicating a number of times by which the user has looked at the object for each of the identified type, wherein the output controller is further configured to display in the display, based on the visual recognition count, a sub image including information on the object for each of the identified type.

Display device, display method, and non-transitory storage medium

Due to the influence of luminance contrast between objects, the luminance of each object may be perceived as being different from the actual luminance, and a difference may occur between the appearance of an output based on input image data having a wide luminance range when the output is observed and the appearance of an output based on output image data having a narrow luminance range when the output is observed. The contrast intensity between the objects is calculated, and a dynamic range compression process is performed based on the calculated contrast intensity, so that it is possible to reduce the difference in appearance due to the influence of luminance contrast.

Apparatus, method, and storage medium

Disclosed is an image processing apparatus including: a derivation unit configured to derive a target luminance characteristic based on a viewing condition of an image and a print luminance characteristic predicted based a reflection characteristic corresponding to data thereon; a unit configured to generate print image data on an image by converting input image data by using a tone conversion characteristic that is set based on these characteristics, in which the derivation unit derives, in a case where a reproduction range of an illumination intensity in the print luminance characteristic is different, the target luminance characteristic so that a liner area of an output luminance in a case where the reproduction range is relatively large becomes large.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, storage medium, and image forming apparatus

An image processing apparatus including a division unit configured to divide first image data having a first dynamic range into a plurality of regions, an obtaining unit configured to obtain distance information indicating a distance from a focal plane in each of the plurality of regions, a determining unit configured to determine a conversion characteristic of each of the plurality of regions based on the distance information, a conversion unit configured to convert each of the plurality of regions into second image data having a second dynamic range smaller than the first dynamic range by using the conversion characteristic determined by the determining unit, and a storage unit configured to store a first conversion characteristic and a second conversion characteristic that can be used for the conversion.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

An image processing apparatus including at least one processor coupled to a memory, serving as a first obtainment unit to obtain a luminance value of image data corresponding to a first luminance range, a second obtainment unit to obtain information for a second luminance range that is less than the first luminance range, a classification unit to classify, based on a correspondence relationship of luminance value conversion from the first luminance range to the second luminance range, the first luminance range of the image data into a plurality of regions, and a display unit to cause a display device to display an image based on the image data such that a pixel of the image having a luminance value belonging to a region, in which a tone characteristic in the image data can be restored when the luminance value conversion is performed, can be specified in the displayed image.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that notify a user of a region in which tone characteristics can be restored

An image processing apparatus for displaying on a display device an image corresponding to a printed product observed in a predetermined observation environment. The apparatus includes one or more memories storing instructions, and one or more processors executing the instructions to obtain image data, to obtain a lighting luminance in the predetermined observation environment, to set a maximum luminance to be displayed in the display device according to the obtained lighting luminance, to convert the obtained image data according to the obtained lighting luminance, and to output the converted image data to the display device whose maximum luminance to be displayed has been set according to the obtained lighting luminance.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, control apparatus, control method, and storage medium that display converted image data whose maximum luminance has been set according to an obtained lighting luminance

An image processing apparatus comprises: an obtaining unit that obtains a luminance of an input image having a color reproduction range wider than that of a printing apparatus; a conversion unit that performs, for the input image, conversion processing of obtaining a value included in the color reproduction range of the printing apparatus and obtaining the luminance of the image after the conversion; and a correction unit that corrects the luminance of the input image, wherein the correction unit performs correction of the luminance of the input image based on a conversion characteristic between the obtained luminance and the obtained luminance such that an intensity of the correction becomes higher for a color that is not included in the color reproduction range of the printing apparatus than for a color included in the color reproduction range of the printing apparatus.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium

An image processing apparatus sets, for at least one portion of a first image in which a brightness range is a first range, relationship information which associates an input brightness value with an output brightness value, changes, based on the relationship information, brightness values of pixels in the portion, and outputs a second image which has a second range of brightness. The relationship information is generated so as to associate, with each of the brightness values of the pixels in the portion, an output brightness value which does not exceed a value higher than the brightness value by a predetermined value, and to associate, with a brightness value which is not less than a feature amount among the brightness values of the pixels in the portion, a predetermined output brightness value falling within a predetermined range.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium that output a second image of which brightness values of pixels are output brightness values based on relationship information and an input brightness value of a first image

An image processing apparatus divides a first image into a plurality of areas based on obtained image data of the first image and sets relationship information between input brightness values with output brightness values for each of the plurality of areas, and converts, based on the relationship information, a brightness value of pixels included in the first image into a brightness value of pixels of a second image whose brightness range is narrower than that of the first image. In the conversion, the apparatus sets, for at least some pixels of the first image, a size of a window for specifying pixels within a predetermined area including the pixels based on environment information in which the second image is observed, and calculates a brightness value in the second image for each of the at least some pixels based on the window.

Image processing apparatus, control method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium

An image processing apparatus includes an input unit for inputting an image, a division unit for dividing the inputted image into a plurality of divided regions, an obtaining unit for obtaining a feature amount of the image for each of the divided regions, a generation unit for generating a compression curve for each divided region, and a compression unit for generating an output image by performing compression of a dynamic range using the compression curve for each of the divided regions. The generation unit generates the compression curve for each of the divided regions so that a slope of the compression curve for each of the divided regions matches in a range from a luminance of a dark region of the image to a luminance of a predetermined brightness.

Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and storage medium that generate compression curves of respective divided regions so that respective slopes of the compression curves match in a particular luminance range

An image processing apparatus comprises: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a dynamic range of a captured image on captured image data; a determination unit configured to determine a dynamic range of a printed product when viewed obtained by printing the captured image based on the captured image data, based on printing information on viewing of the printed product; and a conversion unit configured to perform conversion processing for luminance of the captured image data to the dynamic range determined by the determination unit from the dynamic range obtained by the obtaining unit.

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Tetsuya Suwa