Patent ID: 9183446
Filing Date: 2015-11-10
Classification: G06K

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus for encoding two or more frame images of a moving image, comprising: an extraction unit that extracts one or more specific regions corresponding to an object from a frame image; an encoding unit that encodes a target frame image using an encoding parameter so that image quality of one or more selected regions among specific regions is higher than that of one or more regions other than the selected regions, wherein said encoding unit encodes the target frame so that image quality of a first region extracted by said extraction unit from a first frame is higher than image quality of a second region different from the first region in the first frame, and wherein, when said extraction unit extracts from a second frame subsequent to the first frame a third region corresponding to the first region and a fourth region not corresponding to a region whose image quality is higher than that of the second region in the first frame, said encoding unit selects the fourth region as a region whose image quality is to be higher in the second frame in preference to the third region.