US 7,321,450 B2
Image processing method, image processing apparatus, and recording medium
Akihiko Uekusa, Kanagawa-ken (Japan); Nobuo Ogura, Tokyo (Japan); and Manabu Yamazoe, Kanagawa-ken (Japan)
Assigned to Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan)
Filed on Jul. 20, 2004, as Appl. No. 10/894,012.
Application 10/894012 is a division of application No. 09/336987, filed on Jun. 21, 1999, granted, now 6,791,711.
Claims priority of application No. 11-177130 (JP), filed on Jun. 24, 1998; and application No. 11-177131 (JP), filed on Jun. 24, 1998.
Prior Publication US 2004/0252345 A1, Dec. 16, 2004
Int. Cl. H04N 1/387 (2006.01); H04N 1/40 (2006.01); H04N 1/56 (2006.01); H04N 1/60 (2006.01)
U.S. Cl. 358—2.1  [358/3.24; 358/518; 358/538; 358/540] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for performing image processing, said method comprising the steps of:
inputting image data corresponding to plural image objects;
grouping the plural image objects based on the image data, a set of grouped plural image objects being divided from a single original image object;
detecting a characteristic of the single original image object based on the image data corresponding to the grouped plural image objects;
setting an image processing condition for the grouped plural image objects based on the detected characteristic; and
performing image processing on the image data corresponding to the grouped plural image objects using the image processing condition set in said setting step.