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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 21, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 03, 2017
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Kosei Takahashi, Kawasaki, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To decide an efficient tone-conversion characteristic by which it is possible to reduce tone loss while suppressing the occurrence of a visual tone gap, an image processing apparatus that decides a tone-conversion characteristic for converting an M level input image into an N level output image, the apparatus decides a maximum d at which a difference between a luminance value Y(i) corresponding to an ith level of the input image and a luminance value Y(i+d) corresponding to an (i+d)th level does not exceed a given threshold; and sets, based on the d decided by the decision unit, the tone-conversion characteristic so that the ith level and the (i+d)th level of the input image respectively correspond to a jth level and a (j+1)th level of the output image.