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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2020
Filed:
Mar. 07, 2018
Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Takayuki Hara, Kanagawa, JP;
RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing device includes an importance calculating unit, a capturing-direction acquiring unit, a parameter estimating unit, and an important-area setting unit. The importance calculating unit is configured to calculate importance of each of a plurality of positions in an image. The capturing-direction acquiring unit is configured to acquire, for each of the positions, a capturing direction in a three-dimensional space. The parameter estimating unit is configured to regard importance distributions in respective capturing directions as a mixture distribution made up of element distributions, so as to estimate a parameter of each of the element distributions. The important-area setting unit is configured to set an important area from the image in accordance with the parameter.