Image processing device, image processing method, control program, and recording medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2019058843-A1
Application number	US-201716079500-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jun 22, 2017
Priority date	Jul 1, 2016
Publication date	Feb 21, 2019
Grant date	—

Abstract

A technique for preventing a significant change of viewer's perception of brightness for each content. An image processing device (1) includes a calculation unit (6) configured to calculate a video feature from a parameter in a video signal for transmission and an adjustment unit (8) configured to adjust the parameter such that the video feature calculated by the calculation unit is approximated to a prescribed reference value.

First claim

1 . An image processing device comprising:
a calculation unit configured to calculate a video feature from a parameter in a video signal for transmission; and an adjustment unit configured to adjust the parameter such that the video feature calculated by the calculation unit is approximated to a prescribed reference value.

2 . The image processing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the parameter includes luminance values, and the video feature is a perceptual luminance value.

3 . The image processing device according to claim 2 , wherein
the calculation unit calculates the perceptual luminance value with reference to at least any of an average luminance value of the video signal for transmission, a maximum luminance value, a median value of luminance values, and a MAXFALL.

4 . The image processing device according to claim 2 , wherein
the calculation unit excludes at least one of
a screen whose average luminance value is smaller than or equal to a first threshold value and
a screen whose average luminance value is larger than or equal to a second threshold value
from displayed video represented by the video signal for transmission to calculate the perceptual luminance value.

5 . The image processing device according to claim 2 , wherein
the perceptual luminance value is a first average luminance value.

6 . The image processing device according to claim 5 , wherein
the calculation unit calculates second average luminance values each serving as an average luminance value of a corresponding one of a plurality of frames included in the video signal for transmission and averages the second average luminance values of the plurality of frames to calculate the first average luminance value.

7 . The image processing device according to claim 5 , wherein
the calculation unit calculates second average luminance values each serving as an average luminance value of a corresponding one of a plurality of consecutive frames and calculates a moving average of the second average luminance values to calculate the first average luminance value, and the adjustment unit adjusts a luminance value in a frame following the plurality of consecutive frames such that the first average luminance value calculated by the calculation unit is approximated to the prescribed reference value.

8 . The image processing device according to claim 6 , wherein
the calculation unit calculates the second average luminance values with luminance values larger than or equal to a prescribed value being excluded from luminance values in the plurality of frames.

9 . The image processing device according to claim 5 , wherein
the adjustment unit adjusts the luminance values by at least one of gamma adjustment, gain adjustment, and offset adjustment such that the first average luminance value calculated by the calculation unit is approximated to the prescribed reference value.

10 . The image processing device according to claim 1 , further comprising:
a reference value configuration unit configured to configure the prescribed reference value as a value corresponding to a capturing condition at a time of capturing contents represented by the video signal for transmission or a genre of the contents represented by the video signal for transmission.

11 . The image processing device according to claim 1 , wherein
the prescribed reference value is a value based on a video feature of standard video.

12 . An image processing method comprising:
a calculation step of calculating a video feature from a parameter in a video signal for transmission, and an adjustment step of adjusting the parameter such that the video feature calculated in the calculation step is approximated to a prescribed reference value.

13 . (canceled)

14 . A computer-readable recording medium storing the control program that causes a computer to function as the image processing device according to claim 1 .

Assignees

• Sharp Kk

Inventors

• Suzuki Hideki
• Nishigaki Tomoo
• Sakurai Ryoji
• Yoshiyama Kazuyoshi
• Shibamoto Naoaki

Classifications

• H04N5/57 Primary

  Control of contrast or brightness · CPC title

• H04N9/69

  for modifying the colour signals by gamma correction (controlling camera response for colour signals H04N23/83) · CPC title

• G09G5/10

  Intensity circuits · CPC title

• G09G2320/0233

  Improving the luminance or brightness uniformity across the screen · CPC title

• G09G2360/16

  Calculation or use of calculated indices related to luminance levels in display data · CPC title