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Date of Patent:
Nov. 12, 2019

Filed:

Jul. 17, 2017
Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Saku Hiwatashi, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/17 (2014.01); H04N 19/137 (2014.01); H04N 19/167 (2014.01); H04N 19/124 (2014.01); H04N 19/85 (2014.01); H04N 19/20 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 19/17 (2014.11); H04N 19/124 (2014.11); H04N 19/137 (2014.11); H04N 19/167 (2014.11); H04N 19/85 (2014.11); H04N 19/20 (2014.11);
Abstract

In order to appropriately control the image quality of an intended specific region in an image without delaying an encoding process, an image processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to determine a specific region in a first image targeted for the encoding process on the basis of (a) a time difference between a first time associated with the first image and a second time associated with a second image in which an object has been detected by a detection unit before the encoding process is executed on the first image, and (b) information on a region corresponding to the object detected by the detection unit in the second image, and executes, on the first image, the encoding process of varying image quality between a region corresponding to the specific region determined by the determination unit, and any other region.


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