Patent Document ID: 9361680
Application ID: 14444119
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image; a depth map acquisition unit configured to acquire a depth map corresponding to the image; a refinement unit configured to detect a saliency region, which is a region on which a person tends to focus, from the image and to refine the depth map on the basis of the saliency region; and an image processing unit configured to apply image processing to the image using the depth map refined by the refinement unit, wherein the image processing unit is configured to divide depths in the depth map into a plurality of depth layers, and the refinement unit is configured to judge whether the saliency region includes depths in two or more depth layers and to refine the depths in the saliency region in the depth map to be smooth when the saliency region is judged to include two or more depth layers.