Patent ID: 8488896
Filing Date: 2013-07-16
Classification: G06T

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an image acquiring unit configured to acquire image data about an original image; an image processing unit configured to separate a background pixel from a foreground pixel in the original image, the image processing unit including, an image filtering unit configured to filter the background pixel; and an image merging unit configured to merge the foreground pixel and the filtered background pixel to generate a new image having a blurred background, wherein the second image segmenting unit includes, an image distance information acquiring unit configured to segment the original image into plural second image segments, and configured to acquire image distance information about each of the second image segments; an image focus region information acquiring unit configured to acquire focus region information about a focus region in the original image; a foreground object frame-number-range finalizing unit configured to acquire information about the second image segment that enters the focus region based on the image distance information about each of the second image segments and the focus region information, and configured to finalize a frame number range of a foreground object based on the information about the second image segment that enters the focus region; and a separating unit configured to acquire the foreground segment and the background segment of the original image by separating the foreground object from a background object in the original image based on the image distance information about each of the second image segments and the frame number range of the foreground object.