Image processing apparatus capable of adding soft focus effects, image processing method, and storage medium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9055232-B2
Application number	US-201113213348-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 19, 2011
Priority date	Aug 20, 2010
Publication date	Jun 9, 2015
Grant date	Jun 9, 2015

Abstract

An image processing apparatus which is capable of adding the same soft focus effects to images different in image size irrespective of the types of image scenes. A soft focus processing section acquires an input image. Then, the soft focus processing section acquires a shooting condition for the input image. Further, the soft focus processing section generates a plurality of blurred images different in degree of blur from the input image. The input image and at least one of the blurred images are synthesized. In doing this, a synthesis ratio between the images to be synthesized is set based on the shooting condition for the input image.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An image processing apparatus that performs soft focus processing on an image, the image processing apparatus comprising:
a first acquisition unit configured to acquire an input image;
a second acquisition unit configured to acquire a shooting condition for the acquired input image;
a generation unit configured to generate a plurality of blurred images different in degree of blur from the same acquired input image;
a synthesis unit configured to synthe…

Assignees

• Nashizawa Hiroaki
• Canon Kk

Inventors

• Nashizawa Hiroaki

Classifications

• H04N23/673

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04N5/23212

  Electricity · mapped topic

• G06T5/10

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06T5/002

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06T2207/20048

  Physics · mapped topic