Ricoh Company, Ltd.

Xun Yuan

Gang Wang

Tao Li

Zhongchao Shi

Haike Guan

Tong Liu

Cheng Zhong

An image processing apparatus that performs individual optimum image processing on each of a portion of an image illuminated by a light source and a portion of the image shaded from the light source, an image pickup apparatus, an image processing method, and a computer program are provided.

Image processing apparatus, image pickup apparatus, image processing method, and computer program

A night-scene light source detecting device includes a pixel value obtaining unit configured to obtain a pixel value of each pixel in an input image; a night-scene-feature extraction unit provided for extracting a zone area of a mean corrected-brightness value and a high corrected-brightness value of the input image as two night-scene features based on the pixel value of each pixel in the input image; a night-scene image detection unit provided for determining whether the input image is a night-scene image or not based on the two night-scene features; a specific color detection unit provided for detecting whether each pixel belongs to specific color or not; and a night-scene light source determining unit provided for determining whether the night-scene image is picked up under irradiation by the specific light sources in a night scene or not based on the result of the specific color detection.

Night-scene light source detecting device and night-scene light source detecting method

Disclosed is a sky detection system that detects sky in an image collection device. The system includes an image collection unit that collects information of a color image; a color-feature extraction unit that extracts a color feature of each pixel from the collected image; a distance measurement unit that measures a distance between each pixel of the collected image and a lens; a first classification unit that classifies each pixel of the collected image as either a sky pixel or a non-sky pixel based on the color feature; and a second classification unit that further classifies each pixel of the collected image as either the sky pixel or the non-sky pixel based on the distance and a result of the first classification unit.

Sky detection system used in image extraction device and method using sky detection system

A device for detecting a shadow region in an image includes an imaging module generating a multi-channel image including brightness, red, green, and blue channels, a brightness correcting module correcting values of the brightness channel based on imaging parameters and outputting a corrected multi-channel image, a scene classifying module determining to carry out a shadow detection on the corrected multi-channel image, a shadow detecting module classifying pixels of the corrected multi-channel image into a shadow or non-shadow pixel, and generating a shadow classification mark matrix having pixels having a shadow classification mark value corresponding to the classification, a region segmentation module segmenting the multi-channel image into regions having pixels having similar color values, and generating a region mark matrix having pixels having a region mark value, and a post-processing module updating the shadow classification mark matrix based on the shadow classification mark matrix and region mark matrix.

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