IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND SYSTEM

• Main Authors: TANAKA TOMONORI, SHOHARA MAKOTO, SAWAGUCHI SATOSHI, TAKENAKA HIROICHI, IMAE NOZOMI, TERAO NORIYUKI, SATO HIROYUKI, IRINO YOSHIAKI, MASUDA KENSUKE, YAMAMOTO HIDEAKI, BESSHO DAISUKE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 26.01.2017
• Subjects: ACCESSORIES THEREFOR; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS EMPLOYING ANALOGOUS TECHNIQUES USINGWAVES OTHER THAN OPTICAL WAVES; APPARATUS OR ARRANGEMENTS FOR TAKING PHOTOGRAPHS OR FORPROJECTING OR VIEWING THEM; CINEMATOGRAPHY; ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROGRAPHY; HOLOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PHYSICS; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prevent a photographer from being identified when a taken image of the entire celestial sphere (omnidirectional) or the like, in which the photographer is included, is published on the Internet, etc.SOLUTION: An image processing apparatus which processes the entire-celestial-sphere image data comprises: photographer detection means 220 which detects a photographer area such as a face image of a photographer from the entire-celestial-sphere image data; photographer concealment means 230 which performs concealment processing, which makes person identification impossible, on the photographer area in the entire-celestial-sphere image data; and image output means 240 which outputs the entire-celestial-sphere image data in which the photographer is concealed.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3 【課題】全天球（全方位）などの撮影画像には撮影者本人が写り込まれてしまうことにより、このような撮像画像をネット上などで公開した場合、該撮像画像から撮影者が特定されるのを防止する。【解決手段】全天球画像データを処理する画像処理装置において、全天球画像データの中から撮影者の顔画像などの撮影者領域を検出する撮影者検出手段２２０、全天球画像データ中の撮影者領域に対して、人物特定不可能な秘匿処理を施す撮影者秘匿手段２３０、撮影者の秘匿された全天球画像データを出力する画像出力手段２４０を備える。【選択図】図３