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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2015
Filed:
Apr. 01, 2014
Applicant:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tetsurou Kitashou, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/405 (2006.01); H04N 1/40 (2006.01); H04N 1/387 (2006.01); H04N 1/409 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 1/40062 (2013.01); H04N 1/387 (2013.01); H04N 1/4092 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus discriminates between a first region, which is a consecutive region existing on a region exceeding a predetermined area in an input image, and a second region, which is other than the first region, performs smoothing processing of differing strengths on the first region and the second region, and performs image transformation processing on the image on which smoothing processing was performed.