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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 18, 2014
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2012
Takahiro Fukuhara, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Kiya, Tokyo, JP;
Takahiro Fukuhara, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Kiya, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
There is provided an image processing apparatus including a zero class detecting unit that detects a zero class in which an appearance frequency of a pixel value is zero from among a plurality of classes into which pixel values of an image are classified according to pixel value magnitude, and a non-zero class converting unit that converts the zero class into a non-zero class in which the appearance frequency of the pixel value is one or more, without updating a total number of the classes, by updating a range of the zero class detected by the zero class detecting unit. The present disclosure can be applied to an image processing apparatus.