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Patent US6646760 - Image processing method and apparatus - Google PatentsSearch Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »Sign inAdvanced Patent SearchPatentsThe image processing method and apparatus display a processed image on a monitor as it is reproduced from processed image data obtained by performing specified processing schemes on input image data obtained from a picture optically taken with a taking lens, designate a portion of the processed image...http://www.google.com/patents/US6646760?utm_source=gb-gplus-sharePatent US6646760 - Image processing method and apparatusAdvanced Patent SearchPublication numberUS6646760 B1Publication typeGrantApplication numberUS 09/390,631Publication dateNov 11, 2003Filing dateSep 7, 1999Priority dateSep 7, 1998Fee statusPaidPublication number09390631, 390631, US 6646760 B1, US 6646760B1, US-B1-6646760, US6646760 B1, US6646760B1InventorsKanji HaniharaOriginal AssigneeFuji Photo Film Co., Ltd.Export CitationBiBTeX, EndNote, RefManPatent Citations (8), Referenced by (21), Classifications (20), Legal Events (6) External Links: USPTO, USPTO Assignment, EspacenetImage processing method and apparatus
US 6646760 B1Abstract
What is claimed is: 1. An image processing method that obtains input image data from a picture optically taken with a taking lens and that performs specified processing schemes on the obtained input image data to obtain output image data suitable for producing an output image, which comprises the steps of:
displaying a processed image on a monitor as it is reproduced from processed image data obtained by performing specified processing schemes on the input image data obtained from said picture; designating a portion of said processed image on said monitor to create a designated area in accordance with a state of an aberration in said processed image due to the taking lens; determining a corrective value for correcting said aberration based on an information in the input image data for the designated area; and correcting, based on said corrective value, said aberration on the input image data obtained from said picture and outputting the corrected image data. 2. The image processing method according to claim 1, wherein said processed image is one that is reproduced from the processed image data obtained by processing the input image data obtained from said picture such that initial correction of the aberration due to said taking lens is subjected based on an initial correcting value as determined by an information about said taking lens or a predetermined initial correcting value.
10. An image processing apparatus that obtains input image data from an image optically taken with a taking lens and that performs specified processing schemes on the obtained input image data to obtain output image data suitable for producing an output image, comprising:
information acquisition means for acquiring an information about the taking lens used to take said image; initial correcting means for performing on the input image data initial correction of an aberration due to said taking lens based on either an initial corrective value that is determined by the information about the taking lens that was obtained by said information acquisition means or a predetermined initial corrective value; a monitor for displaying an image that has been subjected to said initial correction; designating means by which a portion of said image that has been subjected to said initial correction is designated as a designated area on said monitor; and correcting means which, based on an image information about the designated area created by designation by said designating means, determines a corrective value for correcting said aberration and corrects the aberration in said taken image based on the corrective value.
Color images are typically formed of three primary colors, red (R), green (G) and blue (B). The refractive index (imaging magnification) of a lens varies subtly with the wavelength of light and R, G and B lights are imaged at different magnifications to cause “chromatic aberration of magnification”. As a result, the image reproduced from the film has a definite color mismatch.
Another problem with the pictures focused through the taking lens is that since the lens has such characteristics that the quantity of light decreases from the center of the image outward according to the so-called cosine4 law, the quantity of light at the edge of the image becomes insufficient to assure the desired brightness. This phenomenon is generally called “deteriorated marginal lumination”.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram for an embodiment of a digital photoprinter using the image processing apparatus of the invention which implements the image processing method of the invention. The digital photoprinter (hereinafter referred to simply as “photoprinter”) generally indicated by 10 in FIG. 1 comprises basically a scanner (image reading apparatus) 12 for photoelectrically reading the image recorded on a film F, an image processing apparatus 14 which performs image processing on the thus read image data (image information) and with which the photoprinter 10 as a whole is manipulated and controlled, and a printer 16 which performs imagewise exposure of a light-sensitive material with light beams modulated in accordance with the output image data delivered from the image processing apparatus 14 and which performs development and other necessary processing to produce a (finished) print.
The image processing apparatus 14 includes a monitor 20 for representing the image captured with the scanner 12, various manipulative commands and pictures for setting and registering various conditions so as to ensure that the operator can correct aberrations manually. Connected to the image processing apparatus 14 is a manipulating unit 18 having a keyboard 18 a and a mouse 18 b for inputting (setting) various conditions including the adjustment of corrective values, for selecting and commanding a specific processing step and for entering a command and so forth for effecting color/density correction, etc.
Various dedicated carriers 30 are available that are compatible with elongated films such as films with lens, cartridges of the APS (Advanced Photo System) and 24-exposure films of 135 size. As shown schematically in FIG. 2, the carrier 30 has a pair of transport roller pairs 30 a and 30 b and a mask 29 having a slit 29 a. The transport roller pairs 30 a and 30 b are provided on opposite sides of the specified reading position in an auxiliary scanning direction which is perpendicular to the main scanning direction (i.e., the direction in which the line CCD sensors in the photosensor 34 extend) and they transport the film F with its length being parallel to the auxiliary scanning direction as it is in registry with the reading position. The slit 29 a defines the projected light from the film F to have a specified narrow shape, is in registry with the reading position and extends in the main scanning direction. The carrier 30 also has magnetic READ/WRITE devices 31.
The reading of images with the CCD sensor 34 in the scanner 12 consists of two scans, the first being “prescan” and the second being “fine scan”. Prescan is performed to read the image at low resolution and determine image processing conditions such as corrective values for correcting the aberrations due to the taking lens. Prescan also helps the operator to perform verification on the monitor 20. During fine scan, image processing is performed on the basis of the settings of image processing conditions, for example, corrective values for correcting the aberrations due to the taking lens so that desired prints are output.
The prescanned image processing section 44 comprises an image processing subsection 52 and an image data transforming subsection 54. The image processing subsection 52 comprises an image data extracting part 56, a LUT�MTX arithmetic part 58, an image correcting part 60 and an image processing part 62.
The LUT�MTX arithmetic part 58 performs three image processing schemes, color balance adjustment, contrast correction and lightness correction.
The fine scanned image processing section 46 comprises an image processing subsection 64 and an image data transforming subsection 66. The image processing subsection 64 comprises a LUT�MTX arithmetic part 68, an image correcting part 70 and an image processing part 72.
The LUT�MTX arithmetic part 68 is a site where under the image processing conditions determined on the basis of the prescanned image data, the fine scanned image data is subjected to color balance adjustment, contrast correction (toning) and lightness correction by processing with LUTs (look-up tables) in accordance with known techniques and to chroma correction by MTX operations in accordance with known techniques.
The key correcting subsection 84 makes another setting of the image processing conditions previously determined on the keyboard 18 a or with the mouse 18 b. It also sets the corrective values (see below) and creates a designated area from the region of a corrected image. In addition, it designates various output conditions for outputting prints, such as print size, output pixel number and electronic magnification ratio.
The correction formulae as used in the invention are specifically such that ΔP which is the amount of modification necessary to correct P which is the data for the image information is expressed as a polynomial of higher degrees of x (which is the first direction of the recorded picture) and y (which is the second direction of the picture), where position coordinates of the picture are represented by (x, y). In the embodiment under consideration, all correction formula and coefficients are expressed as polynomials of higher degrees and their coefficients but this is not the sole case of the invention. The corrective values as used in the invention are values that set the intensity of correction stepwise and they are used to determine correction coefficients in accordance with the intensity of the correction to be performed.
In the LUT�MTX arithmetic part 58, the prescanned image data is subjected to color balance adjustment, contrast correction (toning), lightness correction and so forth under the operator entered processing conditions and thereafter sent to the image correcting part 60.
To perform manual correction, the operator first manipulates the keyboard 18 a or the mouse 18 b to designate a certain region from the picture being displayed on the monitor 20 (step 112), thereby creating a designated area. This designation is not performed on the entire area of the processed image (or picture) that has been subjected to the initial correction but performed on that region of the processed image which is found to have been inadequately corrected for the distortions due to aberrations.
Assume that the picture represents the image of a rectangular shape S. If the distortion due to the aberrations of the taking lens is corrected appropriately, the reproduced image has the correct rectangular shape S. In certain cases, the distortion fails to be corrected appropriately and the reproduced image does not have the rectangular shape S but is distorted into a pincushion as indicated by S′ in FIG. 6. Since the subject has the rectangular shape S, the inward curve AB connecting points A and B should inherently be the straight line AB also connecting points A and B. Hence, the operator manipulates the mouse 18 b and designates points A and B to create the straight line AB (reference line AB). He also designates an arbitrary point E on the curve AB to create a designated point. The straight line AB and the designated point E define a designated area (step 112). The operator then calculates the correction coefficient in the distortion correcting formula such that the curve AB will coincide with the reference line AB, namely, point E designated as a typical point on the curve AB will be modified to lie on the reference line AB. The required corrective value (provisional corrective value) is thus determined. Using the provisional corrective value, the operator can modify the curve AB to the reference line AB. The reference line that can be designated in the invention is not limited to straight line AB taken in the vertical direction of the picture and horizontal lines such as straight lines BC and AD may also be designated as reference lines.
The fine scanned image data stored in the fine scan memory 42 is sent to the LUT�MTX arithmetic part 68, where various image processing schemes are performed by means of tables (LUTs) for gray balance adjustment and so forth and by matrix operational formulae (MTX) for chroma correction under the image processing conditions that have been adjusted and determined by the operator for the prescanned image. After being processed in the LUT�MTX arithmetic part 68, the fine scanned data is sent to the image correcting part 70.
First, the operator selects MANUAL CORRECT of chromatic aberration of magnification from the menu screen on the monitor 20. By operator command from the keyboard 18 a or the mouse 18 b, a certain region is designated from the picture being displayed on the monitor 20 (step 112) to create a designated area. The creation of a designated area is performed not on the entire part of the corrected picture but on that area of the corrected picture which is found to have been corrected only inadequately for the color mismatch due to chromatic aberration of magnification.
An example of the enlarged screen is shown in FIG. 7. On account of the inappropriate correction of chromatic aberration of magnification, the image of subject A has undergone a red and blue color mismatch. It is displayed enlarged on the monitor 20. FIG. 7 shows the displayed image, together with a corrective value on the right side of the screen. The corrective value is expressed as a percentage and it indicates a ratio relative to the correction coefficient used in the initial corrective step 106. The value “+5%” in FIG. 7 means that chromatic aberration of magnification was corrected provisionally using a correction coefficient which was 1.05 times the correction coefficient used in the initial corrective step 106. The corrective value for provisional correction (which is hereunder referred to as “provisional corrective value”) varies if either the UP or DOWN triangle in the lower part of the window for corrective values is clicked with the mouse 18 b or if the necessary information is keyed in from the keyboard 18 a. Each time the provisional corrective value is varied, the enlarged picture on the monitor 20 undergoes provisional correction; therefore, provisional correction is performed by varying the provisional corrective value (step 114) until the subject A shown in FIG. 7 has no more color mismatch; the provisional corrective value that attains this result is thus determined.
Then, the position in the picture being displayed on the monitor 20 which need be subjected to correction is clicked with the mouse 18 b, whereupon two diagonals that connect the four corners of the displayed picture and a reference point are displayed on the screen in superposition on the displayed picture. Also displayed is a rectangular area having the displayed reference point at the center.
As is generally known, the quantity of light in a picture taken via a lens decreases according to the cosine law and, hence, the deterioration of marginal lumination must be corrected and prevented in an appropriate manner. In this case, the deterioration of marginal lumination can be evaluated by the relative proportion of the quantity of light at a point a certain distance away from the image center. In the image processing method of the invention, this distance is set to range from 0.2 to 0.5 times, preferably 0.35 times, the length of the two diagonals. Four points that serve as a reference for knowing the deterioration of marginal lumination lie on the two diagonals in positions the above-specified distance away from the image center. It is preferred to select the reference point that is the closest to the position that was clicked with the mouse 18 b and which the operator found had to be corrected for the reduced quantity of light. The reason for selecting the closest reference point is that the position the operator found had to be corrected for the reduced quantity of light can be effectively corrected for the deteriorated marginal lumination on the basis of the quantity of light at this closest reference point.
The percentage displayed on the right side of the monitor screen is a relative value of the quantity of light at reference point E, with the quantity of light at the image center O being taken as 100. In other words, it is a numerical representation of deteriorated marginal lumination. Under the percentage window, UP and DOWN triangles are displayed. If either of these triangles is clicked with the mouse 18 b or in response to each command from the keyboard 18 a, the quantity of light in the image within the displayed rectangular box F having the reference point E at the center is corrected provisionally (step 114). Looking at the image within the rectangular box, the operator determines if the provisional correction was appropriate (step 116).
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