Image processing apparatus, image processing system, and image processing method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10778865-B2
Application number	US-201815879503-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jan 25, 2018
Priority date	Feb 9, 2017
Publication date	Sep 15, 2020
Grant date	Sep 15, 2020

Abstract

An image processing apparatus communicable with an image capturing device that captures image data includes circuitry. The circuitry acquires the image data captured by the image capturing device. The circuitry acquires type data indicating a type of the image capturing device. The circuitry determines the type of the image capturing device based on the acquired type data. Based on the determined type of the image capturing device, the circuitry determine a type of image processing to be performed on the acquired image data, and performs the determined image processing on the acquired image data.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image processing apparatus communicable with an image capturing device that captures image data, the apparatus comprising circuitry to:
acquire the image data captured by the image capturing device;
determine a type of the image capturing device;
when the determined type of the image capturing device is a spherical camera, at least one of restrict a changing of a resolution of the image data and restrict a cutting out a part of an image;
perform the image processing according to a result of the determined type of the image capturing device; and
perform an encoding on the image data which had the image processing performed,
wherein the circuitry is further configured to reduce a frame rate at which the image data is output when the determined type of the image capturing device is a spherical camera.

2. The image processing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
when the determined type of the image capturing device is a spherical camera, the changing the resolution of the image data is restricted.

3. An image processing system comprising:
an image capturing device that captures image data; and
one or more image processing apparatuses communicable with the image capturing device,
the system comprising one or more processors to:
acquire the image data captured by the image capturing device;
determine whether the image data is data of a spherical image;
based on whether the image data is data of a spherical image, at least one of restrict a change of a resolution of the image data and restrict cutting out a part of an image;
perform the image processing according to a result of the determined type of the image capturing device; and
perform an encoding on the image data which had the image processing performed,
wherein the one or more processors are further to reduce a frame rate at which the image data is output when the determined type of the image capturing device is a spherical camera.

4. An information processing method performed by an image processing apparatus communicable with an image capturing device that captures image data, the method comprising:
acquiring the image data captured by the image capturing device;
determining a type of the image capturing device;
when the determined type of the image capturing device is a spherical camera, at least one of restrict a change of a resolution of the image data and restrict cutting out a part of an image;
perform the image processing according to a result of the determined type of the image capturing device; and
performing an encoding on the image data which had the image processing performed,
wherein the method further comprises reducing a frame rate at which the image data is output when the determined type of the image capturing device is a spherical camera.

5. The image processing system according to claim 3 , wherein:
the determining of whether the image data is data of a spherical image identifies which image capture device has captured the image data.

6. The image processing apparatus of claim 1 , wherein
when the determined type of the image capturing device is a spherical camera, the cutting out a part of the image is restricted.

7. The image processing system of claim 3 , wherein:
when the image data is determined to be data of a spherical image, the changing the resolution of the image data is restricted.

8. The image processing system of claim 3 , wherein:
when the image data is determined to be data of a spherical image, the cutting out a part of the image is restricted.

9. The method according to claim 4 , wherein:
when the determined type of the image capturing device is a spherical camera, the changing the resolution of the image data is restricted.

10. The method according to claim 4 , wherein:
when the determined type of the image capturing device is a spherical camera, the cutting out a part of the image is restricted.

Assignees

• Ricoh Co Ltd

Inventors

• Morita Kenichiro
• Nagamine Shoh
• Yoshida Kumiko
• Matsuno Yoichiro

Classifications

• H04N23/698

  for achieving an enlarged field of view, e.g. panoramic image capture · CPC title

• H04N23/60

  Control of cameras or camera modules · CPC title

• H04N7/142

  Constructional details of the terminal equipment, e.g. arrangements of the camera and the display · CPC title

• H04N7/18

  Closed-circuit television [CCTV] systems, i.e. systems in which the video signal is not broadcast · CPC title

• H04N9/8205

  involving the multiplexing of an additional signal and the colour video signal · CPC title