Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image processing apparatus and image processing method which performs reflection removal processing by using polarization images
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Application No.: US18002491Application Date: 2021-05-13
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Publication No.: US12088929B2Publication Date: 2024-09-10
- Inventor: Yasutaka Hirasawa , Yuhi Kondo , Legong Sun , Taishi Ono
- Applicant: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: CHIP LAW GROUP
- Priority: JP 20111249 2020.06.29
- International Application: PCT/JP2021/018202 2021.05.13
- International Announcement: WO2022/004145A 2022.01.06
- Date entered country: 2022-12-20
- Main IPC: H04N23/81
- IPC: H04N23/81 ; H04N23/71 ; H04N23/76

Abstract:
A same region detector detects a same region of a processing target for each of a plurality of different viewpoints from polarization images in a plurality of polarization directions acquired for each of the viewpoints. The polarization images in the plurality of polarization directions acquired for each of the plurality of different viewpoints are, for example, polarization images acquired by imaging over a period of a plurality of frames in which a positional relationship between the processing target and a polarization image acquisition unit that acquires the polarization images changes. A polarization degree calculation unit calculates a polarization degree of the same region for each of the viewpoints on the basis of the polarization images in the plurality of polarization directions. A reflection removal unit performs reflection removal processing on the same region of the processing target by using the polarization images in the plurality of polarization directions of the viewpoint at which the polarization degree calculated by the polarization degree calculation unit is maximized. A reflection component can be removed even when an angle between a plane direction of a reflecting surface and an imaging direction is not clear.
Public/Granted literature
- US20230239580A1 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Public/Granted day:2023-07-27
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