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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 12, 2020
Filed:
May. 09, 2018
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kenji Onuki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/40 (2006.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/009 (2013.01); G06T 5/007 (2013.01); G06T 5/40 (2013.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20208 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus obtains distance information indicating a distance to each of one or more objects of an image, performs grouping of the one or more objects in accordance with the distance to each object, extracts a plurality of object regions of the image in accordance with the grouping, and determines, in accordance with a number of the plurality of object regions extracted by the extraction unit, whether to perform tone conversion by applying a same tone characteristic to the image as a whole or to perform tone conversion by applying different tone characteristics for respective regions of the image.