IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM

Patent №

US 8,320,672

Granted

2012-11-27

Filed 2006

Owner

SONY CORPORATION

Lab

AI components

1

vision

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

11633032

An image processing apparatus automatically determining a composition of an image includes area dividing means for dividing an input image into areas; target area determining means for determining a target area having higher visibility from the divided image; unnecessary area determining means for determining an unnecessary area having lower visibility from the divided image; and composition determining means for determining from the input image a composition that includes the target area and does not include the unnecessary area.

VisionH04N 1/3872G06T 7/11G06T 7/162G06V 10/267G06V 20/10G06T 2207/20132G06T 2207/30201

AI classification

Vision1.00
AI hardware0.08
Machine learning0.01
Knowledge representation0.00
Natural language0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

SONY CORPORATION

assignment · 189650417

Assignors

NIELSEN, FRANK, HASEGAWA, YUICHI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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