IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD

摘要

An image processing apparatus includes an object distance information acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding a distance to an object detected from acquired image data, a distance information acquisition unit configured to divide the image data into small areas and acquire object distance information for each of the small areas, a determination unit configured to determine a blurring level for each of the small areas, and a blurring processing unit configured to perform blurring processing on the image data based on the blurring level. The determination unit identifies an object located within a predetermined distance from a main object based on the distance information acquired by the object distance information acquisition unit, and determines a distance group of the identified object as a non-blur area.

主权项

1. An image processing apparatus comprising:
an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data; a detection unit configured to detect objects from the image data; a selection unit configured to select a main object from the detected objects; an object distance information acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding distance to the detected objects; a distance information acquisition unit configured to divide the image data into small areas, and acquire object distance information for each of the small areas; a distance grouping unit configured to, based on the distance information, group the small areas into distance groups defined by different distance ranges; a determination unit configured to determine a blurring level for each of the distance groups; and a blurring processing unit configured to perform blurring processing on the image data based on the blurring level, wherein the determination unit identifies an object located within a predetermined distance from the main object, based on the distance information acquired by the object distance information acquisition unit, and determines a distance group of the identified object as a non-blur area.