NEC Develops "Automatic High Image Quality Technology" for photos taken with mobile phones and digital cameras

By analyzing image data photographed by NEC with mobile phones, digital cameras, etc., and by automatically applying optimal correction, high image quality "Automatic high image quality technologyIt seems he has developed " This means that users will be able to easily take high - quality pictures without being conscious of settings etc when shooting with the camera.

This is good news for those who say "Camera settings are troublesome" "How do I know if I can set a good photo"?

Details are as below.
Developed automatic image quality improvement technology to classify image data into five shooting scenes and correct it (December 3, 2007): Press Release | NEC

According to this release, "Automatic high image quality technology" of image data developed by NEC analyzes image data and classifies it into five shooting scenes "person" "landscape" "night view" "flower" "auto" , Applying correction processing such as favorable color, saturation, contrast, sharpening and the like for each scene, and correcting to the optimum image quality.

In addition, by using the technology of NEC's face detection / face collation engine "NeoFace", the shooting scene of the image data in which the face is detected from the image is classified as "person", and from the color information of the detected face By estimating the color of the lighting and correcting the color of the estimated lighting in consideration of human "color adaptation (reaction of human eyes to the color of the illumination light)", an appropriate color of the whole image It seems to realize the balance. Furthermore, in addition to correcting the face to a preferable color, it also correctly corrects backlight conditions and so on.

By the way, since this automatic correction technology uses software, it does not need a dedicated LSI and so it can be applied not only to PCs and servers but also to mobile phones, PDAs, etc. NTT Docomo, which has been on sale since November 29 of"N905iIt is said that it is also installed.