Patent Grant
8727538
The present invention relates to an image processing method when an image is projected by using a plurality of projectors.
Recently, multi-projection has been widely used in which an image based on one set of image data is displayed by using a plurality of projectors. In the following, a manner of displaying one image by arraying projected regions of the plurality of projectors in a tiled pattern is particularly called “tiled display”.
As a method of coupling adjacent projected regions of the projectors to each other in the tiled display, the following examples are known. As one example, there is known a method of coupling two projected regions A and B while making adjustment such that those projected regions are not overlapped with each other. As another example, there is known a method of preparing an overlapped region at the boundary between the projected regions A and B, projecting a common image P to each of respective overlapped regions, and coupling those overlapped regions while making adjustment such that the common images P are exactly superposed with each other. Patent Literature 1 discloses a method of automatically determining a start point and an end point of an overlapped region (edge blend) at each boundary between respective projected regions of the plurality of projectors.
However, an image based on image data is displayed by using a plurality of projectors, there is a risk that the boundary between respective projected regions of the projectors is conspicuous.
For example, when the tiled display is performed by using a plurality of projectors having different resolutions, there is a risk that the boundary between the projector having a lower resolution and the projector having a higher resolution is more conspicuous than the case where the tiled display is performed by using projectors having the same resolution.
As another example, when, of first and second projectors having the same resolution, a field angle of the first projector is set to be smaller than that of the second projector and the first projector projects an image within a projected region of the second projector, there is a risk that the boundary between the respective projected regions is conspicuous. This is because, when the projectors having the same resolution are used, the projector having a smaller field angle provides a higher resolution and hence a difference in resolution is conspicuous at the boundary between the respective projected regions.
Further, for example, when the tiled display is performed by using a plurality of projectors in which keystone correction is made for respective image signals, there is also a risk that a difference in resolution is generated at the boundary between respective projected regions of the projectors and the boundary is conspicuous.
When the boundary is conspicuous due to the difference in projector resolution, the boundary can be made less conspicuous, for example, by reducing the resolution of the projector having the higher resolution. However, image quality in the projected region of the projector having the higher resolution degrades. As another example of solution, the boundary can be made less conspicuous by reducing the resolution only in a part of the projected region of the projector having the higher resolution, which is positioned near the boundary. However, image quality degrades near the boundary.
The present invention has been accomplished in view of the problems described above, and its object is to make the boundary between projected regions less conspicuous while reducing degradation of image quality when an image based on image data is displayed by using a plurality of projectors.
To solve the problems described above, an image processing apparatus of the present invention is constituted, by way of example, as follows. In an image processing apparatus for causing a plurality of projectors to project an image, the image processing apparatus includes an acquiring means, a specifying means, a smoothing means, and an output means. The acquiring means is for acquiring resolutions of the plurality of projectors and region information regarding projected regions of the plurality of projectors. The specifying means is for specifying a boundary between the projected regions of the projectors having different resolutions based on the resolutions of the plurality of projectors and the region information, which have been acquired by the acquiring means. The smoothing means is for executing smoothing such that pixels arrayed in a direction parallel to the boundary, which has been specified by the specifying means, are more strongly smoothed than pixels arrayed in a direction perpendicular to the boundary. In addition, the output means is for outputting image data that has been smoothed by the smoothing means.
Further features of the present invention will become apparent from the following description of exemplary embodiments with reference to the attached drawings.
The configuration for multi-projection in this embodiment will be described with reference to
The projector A is constituted by a panel signal generating portion 102, a light source 103, a liquid crystal panel 104, and a projection optical system 105. The panel signal generating portion 102 executes image processing on image data sent from the image processing apparatus 101 to generate control signals and outputs the control signals to the liquid crystal panel 104. The liquid crystal panel 104 is constituted by three panels of R/G/B, and their transmittances for the three primary colors R/G/B are two-dimensionally controlled in accordance with the control signals from the panel signal generating portion 102. Light projected from the light source 103 passes through the liquid crystal panel 104 that is controlled in accordance with the control signals generated by the panel signal generating portion 102.
The transmitted light having passed through the liquid crystal panel 104 passes through the projection optical system 105 and is projected onto a screen. The projection optical system 105 is constituted by a lens for projecting an image onto the screen in accordance with the transmitted light from the liquid crystal panel 104, a zoom portion for changing a field angle on the screen, a lens shift portion for changing a display position on the screen, etc. While the projector B has a similar configuration to that of the projector A, the projector B has a resolution three times higher than that of the projector A. Accordingly, the resolution to be controlled in a panel signal generating portion 106 and a liquid crystal panel 107 of the projector B is higher than that in the panel signal generating portion 102 and the liquid crystal panel 107 of the projector A.
Next, the image processing apparatus 101 according to this embodiment is described. The image processing portion 201 is a circuit for receiving the image data, executing image processing (filtering process) for the boundary between the respective projected regions of the projectors used for the tiled display, and outputting the image data after the filtering process to the projectors. As an alternative, a CPU 202 included in the image processing apparatus 101 may read a program, which is recorded in a ROM 203, into a RAM 204 and may execute the above-mentioned filtering process, as required. In such a case, the ROM 203 and the RAM 204 provide programs, data, and work areas, which are necessary to execute the filtering process in this embodiment, to the CPU 202. The filtering process executed by the image processing apparatus 101 according to this embodiment is a smoothing process for smoothing pixel values within a filtering region. The smoothing process in this embodiment is executed by using a mean value filter. However, the smoothing process may be executed by using a higher-frequency component cut filter for cutting higher-frequency components in the filtering region, or a central value filter that employs a pixel value at a center of the filtering region.
Also, the image processing apparatus 101 includes a manipulating portion 205 for inputting an instruction from a user. The manipulating portion 205 can be realized with buttons or a touch panel, for example. The image processing apparatus 101 further includes an external interface 206 for connection to a PC, a camera, and media (such as a hard disk, a memory card, an SD card, and a USB memory). The external interface 206 can be realized with, e.g., a communication line in conformity with standards, such as USB, LAN or IEEE1394, or realized with wireless communication.
The image processing portion 201 in this embodiment executes the filtering process (smoothing process) to make the boundary between respective projected regions of the projectors having different resolutions less conspicuous by utilizing visual characteristics of the user. More specifically, there are such visual characteristics that the resolution difference in the direction parallel to a boundary line between two regions differing in resolution from each other more greatly contributes to recognition of the boundary line than the resolution difference in the direction perpendicular to the boundary line. In consideration of those visual characteristics, the image processing portion 201 executes the filtering process (smoothing process) of the image data such that pixels arrayed in the direction parallel to the boundary between the projected regions of the projectors having different resolutions are more strongly smoothed than pixels arrayed in the direction perpendicular to the boundary therebetween. That type of filtering process is executed as a process of, with the aid of a filter, reducing the resolution of the image data, which is output to the projector having the higher resolution (i.e., the projector B), to be matched with the resolution of the projector A having the lower resolution. Thus, the image processing portion 201 in this embodiment executes the filtering process for the pixels arrayed in the direction that does not greatly contribute to recognition of the boundary line (i.e., in the direction perpendicular to the boundary line), at a weaker level than the filtering process for the pixels arrayed in the direction that greatly contributes to recognition of the boundary line (i.e., in the direction parallel to the boundary line). As a result, the boundary between the projected regions of the projectors can be made less conspicuous while suppressing degradation of image quality.
Details of the image processing portion 201 are illustrated in
The image dividing portion 302 divides the image data, which has been input to the image processing apparatus 101, based on the region information of each projector. The region specifying portion 303 specifies the boundary between the projected regions of the projectors having different resolutions based on the region information and the resolution of each projector, which have been acquired by the parameter acquiring portion 301, and then determines, based on the specified result, the filtering region where the filtering process is to be executed.
The coefficient determining portion 304 determines a filter coefficient (smoothing parameter) used in the filtering process. The filtering portion 305 executes the filtering process for the filtering region, which has been specified by the region specifying portion 303, in accordance with the filter coefficient (smoothing parameter) determined by the coefficient determining portion 304.
The operation of the image processing apparatus 201 will be described below with reference to a flowchart of
In step S301 (acquisition procedure), the parameter acquiring portion 301 acquires the region information of each of the projectors used for the tiled display. The region information implies information for specifying the positional relationship between respective projected regions of the projectors in the multi-projection. In the case of the tiled display illustrated in
For example, the user inputs the number of projectors used for the tiled display and selects a configuration pattern of the tiled display. Further, the user designates the projector for each of the projected regions corresponding to the selected configuration pattern. The parameter acquiring portion 301 acquires the region information based on both the configuration pattern of the tiled display, which has been selected by the user, and the projector designated for each of the projected regions.
In the case of
Stated another way, the parameter acquiring portion 301 acquires the region information regarding the projected regions of the plural projectors based on the designation information input through the manipulating portion 205.
As an alternative, the parameter acquiring portion 301 in this embodiment may acquire the region information based on an image picked up by a CCD sensor camera that is connected to the image processing apparatus through the external interface 206. More specifically, the CCD sensor camera picks up respective images of the projected regions of the projectors. By receiving the images picked up by the CCD sensor camera, the parameter acquiring portion 301 can acquire the region information regarding the projected regions of the plural projectors. With such a modification, the region information can be acquired even when the user does not input the configuration pattern of the tiled display. In addition, the parameter acquiring portion 301 in this embodiment changes a manner of acquiring the region information so as to acquire the region information based on the picked-up image when the region information cannot be acquired from the user inputs. As a result, the region information can be acquired with higher reliability.
In step S302 (acquisition procedure), the parameter acquiring portion 301 acquires respective resolutions of the projectors A and B. The parameter acquiring portion 301 in this embodiment receives notices indicating the respective resolutions from the projectors A and B via display cables. The parameter acquiring portion 301 acquires the respective resolutions of the plural projectors based on the notices sent from the plural projectors.
Further, the parameter acquiring portion 301 in this embodiment may calculate the resolution of each projector from the image picked up by the camera that is connected to the image processing apparatus through the external interface 206. With such a modification, the parameter acquiring portion 301 can acquire the resolution of each projector even when the projector does not have the function of notifying its resolution. In addition, the parameter acquiring portion 301 in this embodiment changes a manner of acquiring the resolution so as to acquire the resolution based on the picked-up image when the resolution cannot be acquired based on the notice sent from the projector. As a result, the resolution of each projector can be acquired with higher reliability.
In step S303, the image dividing portion 302 divides the image data based on the region information of the projectors, which has been acquired by the parameter acquiring portion 301. In this embodiment, as illustrated in
In step S304 (specifying procedure), the region specifying portion 303 specifies the filtering region based on the region information and the resolutions, which have been acquired by the parameter acquiring portion 301. More specifically, in step S304, the region specifying portion 303 specifies the boundary between the projected regions of the projectors having different resolutions based on the resolutions and the region information of the plural projectors. Further, the region specifying portion 303 specifies the region for which the filtering process to make the specified boundary less conspicuous is executed (i.e., the filtering region). The filtering process is executed on the image data that has been divided corresponding to the projector having the higher resolution. Stated another way, in this embodiment, the region specifying portion 303 specifies, as the filtering region, at least a part of the region of the image data that is output to the projector B having the higher resolution than the projector A.
The region specifying portion 303 in this embodiment specifies a width of the filtering region based on the difference between the resolutions of the projectors. More specifically, when the difference in resolution between the projectors on both the sides of the boundary is larger than a predetermined difference, the region specifying portion 303 sets the width of the filtering region to be larger than that set when the difference in resolution is smaller than the predetermined difference. With such setting, when the difference in resolution is large, the resolution is more smoothly changed, and therefore the boundary can be made less conspicuous. On the other hand, when the difference in resolution is small, the width of the filtering region is set to be relatively small, and therefore a processing load of the filtering process can be reduced.
For example, when the resolution of the projector B is three times the resolution of the projector A, the region specifying portion 303 specifies 30% of the projected region of the projector B as the filtering region. In other words, a part of the projected region of the projector B, which corresponds to 30% thereof as measured from the boundary with respect to the projected region of the projector A, is specified as the filtering region. Meanwhile, when the resolution of the projector B is twice the resolution of the projector A, the region specifying portion 303 specifies 20% of the projected region of the projector B as the filtering region. Alternatively, the width of the filtering region may be held constant. Further, the region specifying portion 303 may specify the width of the filtering region based on a distance through which an image is observed, or details of the image.
In step S305 (determination procedure), the coefficient determining portion 304 determines the filter coefficient (smoothing parameter), which is used in the filtering process, based on both the direction of the boundary and the filtering region, which have been specified by the region specifying portion 303. The coefficient determining portion 304 in this embodiment determines the filter coefficient such that the pixels arrayed in the direction parallel to the boundary is more strongly smoothed than the pixels arrayed in the direction perpendicular to the boundary.
Stated another way, the coefficient determining portion 304 determines the smoothing parameter such that those ones of pixels in the projected region of the projector B, which are each located at a second distance from the boundary between the projected regions of the projectors A and B, are more strongly smoothed than those ones of the relevant pixels, which are each located at a first distance that is longer than the second distance. Be it noted that the projector B has the higher resolution than the projector A.
Further, the coefficient determining portion 304 in this embodiment determines the filter coefficient such that the filtering process is executed on the pixels arrayed in the direction parallel to the direction of the boundary, but the filtering process is not executed on the pixels arrayed in the direction perpendicular to the direction of the boundary. Thus, the coefficient determining portion 304 determines the filter coefficient such that smoothing of the pixels arrayed in the direction parallel to the direction of the boundary is more strongly performed than smoothing of the pixels arrayed in the direction perpendicular to the direction of the boundary. While this embodiment is described in connection with an example in which the smoothing of the pixels arrayed in the direction perpendicular to the direction of the boundary is not performed, those pixels may be more weakly smoothed than the pixels arrayed in the direction parallel to the direction of the boundary.
Change of the resolution resulting from the filtering process in this embodiment will be described with reference to
The methods of determining the filtering region and the filter coefficient are not limited to the above-described ones. Thus, it is just required that the pixel values in the direction parallel to the boundary line are more strongly smoothed than the pixel values in the direction perpendicular to the boundary line.
In step S306 (smoothing procedure), the filtering portion 305 executes the filtering process (smoothing process) by using both the filtering region, which has been specified in step S304, and the filter coefficient, which has been determined in step S305. More specifically, in step S306, the filtering portion 305 executes the smoothing process such that the pixels arrayed in the direction parallel to the boundary is more strongly smoothed than the pixels arrayed in the direction perpendicular to the boundary. As the filtering process, the filtering portion 305 executes convolution integral of the original image data by using the filter coefficient.
In step S307 (output procedure), the filtering portion 305 outputs the image data after the filtering process to the projectors. Because the image processing apparatus 101 according to this embodiment is described as an apparatus separate from the projectors A and B, the filtering portion 305 outputs the image data to the projectors A and B. However, when the image processing apparatus 101 is incorporated in the projector A, for example, the filtering portion 305 outputs the image data to the projector B and to, e.g., the panel signal generating portion 102 in the projector A. In other words, the filtering portion 305 outputs the image data after the filtering process to at least one of the plural projectors that are used to perform the multi-projection.
Part of the steps in
Next, a result of the image processing executed for the boundary line in accordance with the filtering process is described with reference to
As illustrated in
In this embodiment, the filtering process is described in connection with the case where the projectors A and B project the projected regions arrayed side by side in the left-and-right direction to perform the tiled display, as illustrated in
According to the image processing apparatus of this embodiment, as described above, in the tiled display using a plurality of projectors having different resolutions, the boundary between the projected regions can be made less conspicuous while reducing degradation of image quality.
While the image processing apparatus of this embodiment is described in connection with an example in which the multi-projection is performed by using a plurality of projectors having different resolutions, embodiments are not limited to the above-described one. The present invention can be further applied to the case where the multi-projection is performed by using a plurality of projectors having the same resolution, but having different field angles, or the case where the multi-projection is performed by using a projector in which the keystone correction is executed and a projector in which the keystone correction is not executed.
When the field angle is employed, the parameter acquiring portion 301 acquires information regarding the resolution and the field angle from each projector in step S302 of
When a correction amount for the keystone correction is employed, the parameter acquiring portion 301 acquires information regarding the resolution and the correction amount for the keystone correction from each projector in step S302 of
Embodiment 2 is described primarily about different points in comparison with Embodiment 1.
More specifically, the image dividing portion 1302 divides the image data based on information regarding the projected region, which is acquired from each projector, and further acquires the region information by using the divided image data. For example, in
An edge direction specifying portion 1306 specifies both the boundary between the projected regions where the resolutions differ from each other and the direction of the boundary based on the divided image data that has been output from the image dividing portion 1302. Processing executed by the edge direction specifying portion 1306 will be described below.
The edge direction specifying portion 1306 in this embodiment specifies the boundary between the projected regions where the resolutions differ from each other and the direction of the boundary in accordance with the following method.
The edge direction specifying portion 1306 calculates differential amounts in the x and y directions for an arbitrary pixel P(x, y) in the region 1001:
fx=P(x+1,y)−P(x,y) (1)
fy=P(x,y+1)−P(x,y) (2)
Next, the edge direction specifying portion 1306 calculates intensity I at an edge of the image according to the following formula.
I(x,y)=√(fx×fx+fy×fy) (3)
Next, the edge direction specifying portion 1306 compares the edge intensity calculated according to the formula (3) with a threshold I0.
In the case of I(x, y)>I0, the edge direction specifying portion 1306 determines that the pixel P(x, y) represents an edge portion. On the other hand, in the case of I(x, y)<=I0, the edge direction specifying portion 1306 determines that the pixel P(x, y) does not represent an edge portion.
Subsequently, the edge direction specifying portion 1306 calculates an edge direction. The edge direction at the pixel P(x, y) is defined by;
θ=arctan(fy/fx) (4)
The relationship between a boundary at the edge and θ is described with reference to
The edge direction specifying portion 1306 outputs the angle information θ to the coefficient determining portion 1304. The coefficient determining portion 1304 determines the filter coefficient (smoothing parameter) by using the angle information θ. More specifically, the coefficient determining portion 1304 determines the smoothing parameter such that pixels arrayed in the direction parallel to the direction of the boundary are more strongly smoothed than pixels arrayed in the direction perpendicular to the direction of the boundary. The coefficient determining portion 1304 in this embodiment previously stores the optimum filter coefficient for each value of the angle information θ. Then, the coefficient determining portion 1304 determines the filter coefficient in accordance with both the acquired angle information θ and the filter coefficient stored in advance. Be it noted that a method of determining the filter coefficient is not limited to the above-described one.
According to the image processing apparatus of this embodiment, as described above, when an image based on image data is displayed by using a plurality of projectors, the boundary between the projected regions can be made less conspicuous while reducing degradation of image quality.
While this embodiment is described in connection with the image processing apparatus in which projectors each projecting an image onto a screen from the front surface side displays the image, the present invention can also be applied to, e.g., a rear projection television, etc. Further, while this embodiment is described in connection with the case where the image processing apparatus is separate from a projector, the image processing apparatus may be incorporated in the projector.
The first embodiment and the second embodiment have been described in connection with the case of using two projectors, the present invention can also be applied to the case of using three or more projectors. This embodiment is described in connection with the case where the multi-projection is performed by using four projectors (i.e., projectors A, B, C and D). For example, the projector D (fourth projector) projects an image onto the projected region of the projector A (first projector) in
In such an example, the filtering process is executed on a part of the projected region of the projector B, which is positioned near the boundary with respect to the projected region of the projector A, and on a part of the projected region of the projector B, which is positioned near the boundary with respect to the projected region of the projector C. Accordingly, two pixel values are calculated for one pixel in the part (upper left corner) of the projected region of the projector B. More specifically, those two pixel values calculated are a first pixel value obtained with the filtering process, which is executed depending on the direction of the boundary between the projected regions of the projectors A and B, and a second pixel value obtained with the filtering process, which is executed depending on the direction of the boundary between the projected regions of the projectors B and C. When two or more pixel values are calculated for one pixel, the image processing portion 201 in this embodiment determines, based on an image pattern in a boundary area, which one of the pixel values is to be employed.
To describe in more detail, the filtering portion 305 analyzes the image in the projected region of the projector B and determines in which one of two cases, i.e., the case where the smoothing process is more strongly executed in the parallel direction and the case where the smoothing process is more strongly executed in the perpendicular direction, quality of the projected image is less degraded. Then, the filtering portion 305 employs, based on the determination result, the pixel value calculated through the filtering process that has been more strongly executed in the direction in which quality of the projected image is less degraded.
Stated another way, the image processing portion 201 in this embodiment performs the multi-projection by using the projector A (first projector), the projector B (second projector), the projector C (third projector), and the projector D (fourth projector). Further, the image processing portion 201 analyzes the image data input to the image dividing portion 302. When at least respective parts of a first smoothing region corresponding to the boundary between the projected regions of the projectors A and B and a second smoothing region corresponding to the boundary between the projected regions of the projectors B and C overlap with each other, the image processing portion 201 determines the image data, which is to be output, as follows. Depending on the analyzed result of the image data, the image processing portion 201 outputs one of the image data that has been smoothed depending on the direction of the boundary between the projected regions of the projectors A and B and the image data that has been smoothed depending on the direction of the boundary between the projected regions of the projectors B and C. Degradation of the projected image attributable to the filtering process can be reduced by determining the pixel value of the image data, which is to be output, based on the image pattern, as described above.
However, the manner of selecting the pixel value to be employed is not limited to the above-described one. For example, it is also possible to employ a pixel value obtained through the filtering process that is executed depending on the direction of the boundary between the projected region of one of the projector A and the projector C, which has a lower resolution, and the projected region of the projector B.
More specifically, when the resolution of the projector B is higher than that of the projector A and the resolution of the projector A is higher than that of the projector C, the image processing portion 201 executes the filtering process depending on the direction of the boundary between the projected region of the projector C and the projected region of the projector B. Then, the image processing portion 201 outputs the image data in which the pixel value obtained through the filtering process executed depending on the direction of the boundary between the projectors B and C is provided as a pixel value in a region where the smoothing regions overlap with each other.
Stated another way, when at least respective parts of the first smoothing region corresponding to the boundary between the projected regions of the projectors A and B and the second smoothing region corresponding to the boundary between the projected regions of the projectors B and C overlap with each other, the image processing portion 201 determines the image data, which is to be output, as follows. Depending on the resolutions of the projectors A and C, the image processing portion 201 outputs one of the image data that has been smoothed depending on the direction of the boundary between the projected regions of the projectors A and B and the image data that has been smoothed depending on the direction of the boundary between the projected regions of the projectors B and C.
The boundary corresponding to a larger difference in resolution can be made less conspicuous by determining the image data, which is to be output, based on the respective resolutions of the projectors, as described above. Further, by determining the output image data in such a manner, the processing can be simplified in comparison with the case of determining the pixel value based on the image pattern. In addition, the image processing portion 201 may determine the pixel value, which is to be employed, after calculating two pixel values based on two smoothing parameters, or may calculate a pixel value after determining one of the two smoothing parameters.
The present invention can also be implemented by executing the following process. More specifically, software (program) for implementing the functions of the above-described embodiments is supplied to a system or an apparatus via a network or some of various storage media, and a computer (or a CPU, an MPU, etc.) in the system or the apparatus reads and executes the program. In an example, a storage media may have stored thereon, a program for a computer that executes a specifying procedure and an output procedure, where the specifying procedure is for specifying a boundary between projected regions of a plurality of projectors having different resolutions based on the resolutions of the plurality of projectors and region information regarding the projected regions of the plurality of projectors, and where the output procedure is for outputting, to the plurality of projectors, image data that is smoothed in accordance with the boundary specified in the smoothing procedure. Here, the program may cause the computer to execute a smoothing procedure for executing smoothing such that pixels arrayed in a direction parallel to the boundary, which has been specified in the specifying procedure, are more strongly smoothed than pixels arrayed in a direction perpendicular to the boundary.
According to the present invention, when one image is displayed by arraying the projected regions of the plurality of projectors, the boundary between the projected regions can be made less conspicuous while reducing degradation of image quality in the projected regions.
While the present invention has been described with reference to exemplary embodiments, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed exemplary embodiments. The scope of the following claims is to be accorded the broadest interpretation so as to encompass all such modifications and equivalent structures and functions.
This application claims the benefit of International Application No. PCT/JP2009/069998, filed Nov. 27, 2009, which is hereby incorporated by reference herein in its entirety.
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