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Image processing apparatus and method for correcting luminance and saturation of a pixel in an image or of a target lattice point in a lookup table
Assignee: Canon Inc
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Filing: 2013-10-07
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Granted: 2015-05-19
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Expires: 2033-10-07
Abstract
Abstract A gradation-correcting curve to correct a gradation of an input image is generated. Gradation correction based on the gradation-correcting curve is made to a boundary pixel of a color-reproduction space at the same saturation as that of a target lattice point and at a hue of the target lattice point. An equal-saturation line is set by using the boundary pixel of the color-reproduction space after the gradation correction. A saturation-correction amount of the target lattice point is decided based on the gradation-correcting curve and the equal-saturation line.
Inventors
- 👤 Kiyoshi Umeda
- 👤 Ryosuke Iguchi
Bibliographic Details
Application Number
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Jurisdiction
US
Data Source
google_patents
Last Synchronized
2026-11-09 09:48
CPC Classifications
G; G06; G06T; G06T5/00; H; H04; H04N; H04N1/00; H04N1/40; H04N1/407; H04N1/4072; H04N1/4074; G06T1/00; G06T5/90; G06T5/92; H04N1/46; H04N1/56; H04N1/60; H04N1/6027
Claims Analysis
Total Claims: 16
Claim 1
Independent Claim
167 words
An image processing apparatus comprising: a luminance correction unit configured to correct a luminance of a target lattice point in a lookup table and a luminance of a color space boundary in a hue of the target lattice point; a determination unit configured to determine the amount of a saturation emphasis such that the amount of the saturation emphasis becomes smaller as the luminance corrected by the luminance correction unit becomes larger, based on the luminance of the target lattice point corrected by the luminance correction unit and the luminance of the color space boundary corrected by the luminance correction unit; a saturation correction unit configured to correct a saturation of the target lattice point corrected by the luminance correction unit using the amount of the saturation emphasis determined by the determination unit; and a generating unit configured to generate a correction characteristic for correcting a luminance and a saturation using the luminance and the saturation of the target lattice point corrected by the saturation correction unit.
Claim 2
Dependent Claim
167 words
An image processing apparatus comprising: a luminance correction unit configured to correct a luminance of a target lattice point in a lookup table and a luminance of a color space boundary in a hue of the target lattice point; a determination unit configured to determine the amount of a saturation emphasis such that the amount of the saturation emphasis becomes smaller as the luminance corrected by the luminance correction unit becomes larger, based on the luminance of the target lattice point corrected by the luminance correction unit and the luminance of the color space boundary corrected by the luminance correction unit; a saturation correction unit configured to correct a saturation of the target lattice point corrected by the luminance correction unit using the amount of the saturation emphasis determined by the determination unit; and a generating unit configured to generate a correction characteristic for correcting a luminance and a saturation using the luminance and the saturation of the target lattice point corrected by the saturation correction unit.
Claim 3
Dependent Claim
34 words
The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a correction unit configured to correct a luminance and a saturation in an image using the correction characteristic generated by the generating unit.
Claim 4
Dependent Claim
32 words
The image processing apparatus according to claim 2 , wherein the luminance correction unit determines the amount of the luminance correction based on the luminance of a face included in the image.
Claim 5
Dependent Claim
26 words
The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the amount of the saturation emphasis varies according to the hue of the target lattice point.
Claim 6
Dependent Claim
39 words
The image processing apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein the amount of the saturation emphasis becomes larger when a hue of the target lattice point is blue than when a hue of the target lattice point is yellow.
Claim 7
Dependent Claim
20 words
The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the color space comprises sRGB space or adobe RGB space.
Claim 8
Dependent Claim
32 words
The image processing apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising a unit configured to retain the saturation and luminance of a maximum saturation point in the color space for individual hues.
Claim 9
Dependent Claim
157 words
An image processing method carried out in an image processing apparatus comprising: correcting a luminance of a target lattice point in a lookup table and a luminance of a color space boundary in a hue of the target lattice point in a first correcting step; determining the amount of a saturation emphasis such that the amount of the saturation emphasis becomes smaller as the luminance corrected by the luminance correction step becomes larger, based on the luminance of the target lattice point corrected by the luminance correction step and the luminance of the color space boundary; correcting a saturation of the target lattice point corrected by the luminance correcting step using the determined amount of the saturation emphasis determined by the determining step in a second correcting step; and generating a correction characteristic for correcting a luminance and a saturation using the luminance and the saturation of the target lattice point corrected by the second correcting step.
Claim 10
Dependent Claim
157 words
An image processing method carried out in an image processing apparatus comprising: correcting a luminance of a target lattice point in a lookup table and a luminance of a color space boundary in a hue of the target lattice point in a first correcting step; determining the amount of a saturation emphasis such that the amount of the saturation emphasis becomes smaller as the luminance corrected by the luminance correction step becomes larger, based on the luminance of the target lattice point corrected by the luminance correction step and the luminance of the color space boundary; correcting a saturation of the target lattice point corrected by the luminance correcting step using the determined amount of the saturation emphasis determined by the determining step in a second correcting step; and generating a correction characteristic for correcting a luminance and a saturation using the luminance and the saturation of the target lattice point corrected by the second correcting step.
Claim 11
Dependent Claim
32 words
The image processing method according to claim 8 , further comprising a step of correcting a luminance and a saturation in an image using the correction characteristic generated by the generating step.
Claim 12
Dependent Claim
32 words
The image processing method according to claim 9 , wherein the luminance correction step determines the amount of the luminance correction based on the luminance of a face included in the image.
Claim 13
Dependent Claim
26 words
The image processing method according to claim 8 , wherein the amount of the saturation emphasis varies according to the hue of the target lattice point.
Claim 14
Dependent Claim
39 words
The image processing apparatus according to claim 11 , wherein the amount of the saturation emphasis becomes larger when a hue of the target lattice point is blue than when a hue of the target lattice point is yellow.
Claim 15
Dependent Claim
20 words
The image processing method according to claim 8 , wherein the color space comprises sRGB space or adobe RGB space.
Claim 16
Dependent Claim
31 words
The image processing method according to claim 8 , further comprising a step of retaining the saturation and luminance of a maximum saturation point in the color space for individual hues.
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