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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 26, 2009
Filed:
May. 12, 2005
Naohiro Tabata, Kyoto, JP;
Yoko Yoshida, Kyoto, JP;
Naohiro Tabata, Kyoto, JP;
Yoko Yoshida, Kyoto, JP;
Omron Corporation, Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
An object of the invention is to provide an apparatus which performs correction only to a high-brightness portion generated in a particular region, in which a decrease in brightness is necessary, and glaze is removed or reduced. A correction process in which the brightness or the lightness is decreased is simply performed to a pixel in which the brightness or the lightness is high, but a predetermined region (for example, face, eyes, and mouth) of a subject is detected and a degree of correction of each pixel is determined based on the detection result (a position and a color of the predetermined region). Therefore, the region in which the decrease in brightness is not necessary is maintained at high brightness, and the image correction is performed only to the region in which the decrease in brightness is necessary (for example, the region in which the glaze of a skin is generated).