Patent ID: 9727585
Date: 2017-08-08
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06K,G06T,H04N

Claim:
1. An image processing apparatus for processing light field information indicating an intensity distribution of light and an incident direction of light, the image processing apparatus comprising: a processor; and a memory that stores a program executable by the processor; wherein the program, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to function as: an image generating unit configured to generate a refocus image from the light field information; a first obtaining unit configured to obtain a depth of field of the refocus image; an information generating unit configured to generate first additional information to be attached to the refocus image, based on the depth of field of the refocus image; an attaching unit configured to attach the first additional information to the refocus image; a second obtaining unit configured to obtain second additional information, which is provided together with the light field information and includes subject information; and a distance calculating unit configured to determine a subject distance with regard to each piece of subject information included in the second additional information, from the light field information and the second additional information, wherein the information generating unit generates the first additional information by extracting subject information, of which subject distance determined by the distance calculating unit is included in the depth of field, from among pieces of subject information included in the second additional information.