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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 23, 2014
Filed:
Dec. 22, 2008
Applicant:
Toshiki Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Toshiki Ono, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/68 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/228 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); H04N 5/23293 (2013.01); H04N 5/23245 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to receive an input image to be processed; a brightness-information extracting unit configured to extract, from the image, brightness information indicating brightness of the whole image; a luminance-value-distribution-information extracting unit configured to extract, from the image, luminance-value-distribution information indicating a distribution of luminance values in the image; and a scene determining unit configured to determine a scene of an object included in the image on the basis of the extracted brightness information and the extracted luminance-value-distribution information.