摘要:
In conventional image processing techniques, although a certain kind of image adjustment provides a desired effect on an image, it may cause an undesired side effect thereon, resulting in an unsatisfactory result of adjustment. On a computer serving as the nucleus of image processing, a region applicable to image processing is specified at a step, an object pixel is moved for judging whether or not it belongs to the specified region at the subsequent steps, and then a specified image processing operation is carried out if the object pixel is judged to belong to the specified region. Therefore, adjustment of image data in a certain region does not have an adverse effect on image data in other regions, making it possible to realize satisfactory adjustment in an entire image with ease. Further, on the computer, chromaticity "x-y" of each pixel is calculated at a step, and statistical calculation is performed at the subsequent steps if a value of chromaticity thus calculated is in a possible chromaticity range. After completion of statistical calculation on all the pixels, an average value is determined at the subsequent step, and a degree of each color adjustment is calculated while taking account of the number of pixels of interest at the subsequent step. In this manner, accurate statistical calculation is performed on color pixels to be adjusted independently of brightness, and a degree of each color adjustment is regulated by taking account of the number of pixels of interest, thereby making it possible to carry out optimum color adjustment processing without giving an adverse effect on colors of surrounding pixels.
摘要:
The present invention is an image processing apparatus for processing an image data using an image file which includes the image data and image processing control information to be used for processing the image data. The apparatus comprises an automatic picture quality adjuster configured to automatically regulate lightness of the image data according to lightness of a whole image expressed by the image data and an adjustment degree determ iner configured to determine a degree of the auto adjustment based on the image processing control information.
摘要:
A color printer (20) allocates all the image processing memory resource amounts to image processing on image data (GD) arranged in the main scanning direction of a print head (IH), reserves respective memory resource amounts to arranged image data (GD), and frees memory resources sequentially on completion of image processing. CPU (51) reserves an image processing memory resource for image data (1) in the storage area of RAM (53), and frees the reserved memory resource on completion of image processing on image data (1). CPU (51) repeats this processing on each element of image data contained in one print job.
摘要:
An edge-enhancement processing apparatus which removes problems of the conventional edge enhancement processing, which requires checking by an operator's visual observation or a high-frequency band filter, thus complicating the construction. A computer main body 21, as the nucleus of edge enhancement processing, calculates an edge amount as vector change level while generating a vector based on the difference values of data between adjacent pixels, at step S110, then selects and integrates edge amounts of only pixels having large edge amounts at steps S120 and S130, and obtains the mean value at step S230, to obtain the sharpness level of the image while adding attention to the pixels having large image change levels. The computer main body 21 determines an edge enhancement level Eenhance based on the image sharpness level. Thus, the computer main body 21 automatically performs edge enhancement processing at an optimum enhancement level.