Image processing device, imaging device, image processing method, and image processing program

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11223826-B2
Application number	US-202117183051-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 23, 2021
Priority date	Sep 26, 2018
Publication date	Jan 11, 2022
Grant date	Jan 11, 2022

Abstract

Provided are an image processing device capable of performing compression processing on a video captured in each video capturing mode according to a first video capturing mode and a second video capturing mode with different capturing conditions. A possible range of a quantization parameter applied in a case where the video is compressed is made different in the first video capturing mode and the second video capturing mode with different capturing conditions. The quantization parameter is determined within a first range in a case of the first video capturing mode, and the quantization parameter is determined within a second range narrower than the first range in a case of the second video capturing mode. In particular, a second upper limit value of the second range is smaller than a first upper limit value of the first range, and a second lower limit value of the second range is larger than a first lower limit value of the first range.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image processing device comprising:
a processor configured to
acquire a video captured based on a first video capturing mode or a second video capturing mode with an imaging condition that is different from an imaging condition of the first video capturing mode;
determine a quantization parameter of image data of a frame constituting the video; and
compress the image data with the quantization parameter,
wherein the processor is further configured to
determine the quantization parameter within a first range in a case of the first video capturing mode and determine the quantization parameter within a second range in a case of the second video capturing mode, and
a second upper limit value of the second range is smaller than a first upper limit value of the first range and a second lower limit value of the second range is larger than a first lower limit value of the first range.

2. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second range is set according to a setting value of a frame rate.

3. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the second range is set according to an input from an instruction input section that receives an external instruction.

4. The image processing device according to claim 1
wherein the processor is further configured to
discriminate a scene of the video, and
set the second range according to the scene.

5. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processor is further configured to compress the video by an MPEG encoding method.

6. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processor is further configured to determine the quantization parameter according to an amount of generated code after quantization of image data of a past frame of the video.

7. The image processing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein, in the second video capturing mode, at least one of a shutter speed, a speed of autofocus, a tracking speed of automatic exposure, a tracking speed of white balance, or a frame rate is set faster than that of the first video capturing mode.

8. An imaging device comprising:
the image processing device according to claim 1 ; and
an image sensor that captures the video based on the first video capturing mode or the second video capturing mode,
wherein the processor is further configured to acquire the video captured by the image sensor.

9. An image processing method comprising:
acquiring a video captured based on a first video capturing mode or a second video capturing mode with an imaging condition that is different from an imaging condition of the first video capturing mode;
determining a quantization parameter of image data of a frame constituting the video; and
compressing the image data with the quantization parameter,
wherein the quantization parameter is determined within a first range in a case of the first video capturing mode and the quantization parameter is determined within a second range in a case of the second video capturing mode, and
a second upper limit value of the second range is smaller than a first upper limit value of the first range and a second lower limit value of the second range is larger than a first lower limit value of the first range.

10. The image processing method according to claim 9 ,
wherein the second range is set according to a setting value of a frame rate.

11. The image processing method according to claim 9 ,
wherein the second range is set according to an input from an instruction input section that receives an external instruction.

12. The image processing method according to claim 9 , further comprising:
discriminating a scene of the video,
wherein the second range is set according to the discriminated scene.

13. The image processing method according to claim 9 ,
wherein the video is compressed by an MPEG encoding method.

14. The image processing method according to claim 9 ,
wherein the quantization parameter is determined according to an amount of generated code after quantization of image data of a past frame of the video.

15. The image processing method according to claim 9 ,
wherein, in the second video capturing mode, at least one of a shutter speed, a speed of autofocus, a tracking speed of automatic exposure, a tracking speed of white balance, or a frame rate is set faster than that of the first video capturing mode.

16. A non-transitory computer readable medium for storing an image processing program causing a computer to perform a method, the method comprising:
acquiring a video captured based on a first video capturing mode or a second video capturing mode with an imaging condition that is different from an imaging condition of the first video capturing mode;
determining a quantization parameter of image data of a frame constituting the video; and
compressing the image data with the quantization parameter,
wherein, the quantization parameter is determined within a first range in a case of the first video capturing mode and the quantization parameter is determined within a second range in a case of the second video capturing mode, and
a second upper limit value of the second range is smaller than a first upper limit value of the first range and a second lower limit value of the second range is larger than a first lower limit value of the first range.

Assignees

• Fujifilm Corp

Inventors

• Nishiyama Yukinori
• Wada Tetsu
• Tanaka Koichi
• Fujikawa Tetsuya
• Hayashi Kenkichi

Classifications

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