Image Processing method

Abstract

The image processing method applies image processing to an inputted image data. The method registers predetermined image processing conditions for each specific person in advance, extracts a person in the inputted image data, identifies the extracted person to find if the extracted person is the specific person and selects image processing conditions corresponding to the identified specific person to perform the image processing based on the selected image processing conditions. Amusement aspect in photography and image representation can be enhanced, and even inexperienced or unskilled persons in personal computer or image processing software can correct images.

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         6 . An image processing method, comprising the steps of: 
 determining a type of feeling from types of feeling registered in advance based on at least one kind of information selected from among voice data accompanying a photographed image, an expression of a person extracted from the photographed image, and a gesture of the extracted person; and    subjecting said photographed image to image processing which applies an image processing pattern corresponding to said determined type of feeling among image processing patterns set in advance.    
     
     
         7 . The image processing method according to  claim 6 , wherein said image processing pattern is set in association with said type of feeling, and said image processing to which said image processing pattern is applied is at least one processing selected from among composition processing for composing a specified mark corresponding to said type of feeling, substitution processing for substituting with an animation image or a computer graphics image corresponding to said type of feeling, image modification processing performed on said photographed image in correspondence with said type of feeling, and processing for changing a density and a color of said photographed image in correspondence with said type of feeling.  
     
     
         8 . The image processing method according to  claim 7 , wherein said composition processing is processing for composing said specified mark at a predetermined position in said photographed image or at a predetermined or relative position with respect to the person extracted in advance or during said composition processing from said photographed image, and in a predetermined or relative size and a predetermined or relative orientation with respect to said photographed image or said extracted person.  
     
     
         9 . The image processing method according to  claim 7 , wherein said substitution processing is processing for substituting a specified portion of the person extracted in advance or during said substitution processing from said photographed image with said animation image or said computer graphics image.  
     
     
         10 . The image processing method according to  claim 6 , 
 wherein said photographed image is a photographed image by an image photographing device with a recording function, and    wherein said image processing pattern is registered in said image photographing device with the recording function in advance, and the image processing to which said image processing pattern is applied is performed by said image photographing device with the recording function.    
     
     
         11 . The image processing method according to  claim 10 , wherein said image processing to which said image processing pattern is applied is performed on a lab side that receives image photographing information including said voice data recorded by said image photographing device with the recording function.  
     
     
         12 . The image processing method according to  claim 6 , 
 wherein said photographed image is a photographed image by a telephone call device with a photographing function, and    wherein said image processing to which said image processing pattern corresponding to said type of feeling of the person is applied is performed on said photographed image.    
     
     
         13 . The image processing method according to  claim 12 , wherein said image processing pattern is registered in said telephone call device with the photographing function in advance, and said image processing is performed by said telephone call device with the photographing function to transmit a processed image to a terminal on an opposite party side.  
     
     
         14 . The image processing method according to  claim 12 , wherein said image processing pattern is registered in a repeater station of said telephone call device with the photographing function in advance, and said image processing is performed in said repeater station to transmit a processed image to one terminal in a connected telephone line.  
     
     
         15 . The image processing method according to  claim 12 , wherein said image processing pattern is registered in said telephone call device with the photographing function in advance, and said image processing to which said image processing pattern is applied is performed by said telephone call device with the photographing function on an image that was photographed by a terminal on an opposite party side and received by said telephone call device with the photographing function.  
     
     
         16 . The image processing method according to  claim 6 , wherein if a specified mark corresponding to said type of feeling or a composing position of said mark is wrong in said image processing to which said image processing pattern is applied, the mark corresponding to said type of feeling, said composing position of said mark and a size or an orientation of said mark can be corrected.  
     
     
         17 . An image processing method comprising the steps of: 
 capturing a television image in a personal computer; and    performing image processing to which an image processing pattern is set in advance on said captured television image in said personal computer.