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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 07, 2016
Filed:
Sep. 10, 2014
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/217 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/002 (2013.01); H04N 5/217 (2013.01); H04N 5/23219 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20012 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30201 (2013.01); H04N 5/23229 (2013.01);
Abstract
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, there is provided an image processing apparatus including a detection unit, a strength determination unit, and a processor. The detection unit is configured to detect at least one area in an image. The strength determination unit is configured to determine strength of processing for a unit of processing of the image, based on a distance between a location of the area being detected by the detection unit and a location of the unit of processing of the image. The processor is configured to perform the processing on the image, per the unit of processing, at the strength being determined by the strength determination unit.