JP-2024161774-A5 -

Dates

Publication Date

20260511

Application Date

20230508

Description

The electronic device of the present invention comprises an acquisition means for acquiring an image, a detection means for detecting a specific subject from the image, a setting means for selectively executing a process to hide a range of the image in a predetermined direction that includes the specific subject detected by the detection means, and a process for performing image processing to reduce the visibility of the specific subject, wherein when the range of the image that includes the specific subject is hidden, the image is displayed by connecting the ends of the range that includes the specific subject . In S603, the system control unit 50 determines whether the horizontal distance between the restricted subject to be processed and the subject set in S401 in the wide-angle image is greater than a threshold. If the distance is greater than the threshold, the process proceeds to S611; otherwise, it proceeds to S604 . Here, the horizontal distance between two subjects in the wide-angle image corresponds to the absolute difference between the location angle (azimuth angle) of one subject and the location angle of the other subject. The system control unit 50 may also perform the determination by assuming that the subject set in S401 is located in the reference direction of the digital camera 100. For example, in the situation shown in Figure 5(b) (where person 501 is set as a subject for which viewing restrictions are not applied in S401), it is determined whether the distance between person 501 and the location angle of 0° of the reference direction 506 is greater than a threshold. If multiple subjects are set as subjects for which viewing restrictions are not applied in S401, it is also possible to determine whether the distance from the restricted subject to be processed to the closest subject among the multiple subjects is greater than a threshold. Here, two absolute values are obtained as the difference between the location angle of the restricted subject to be processed and the location angle of the subject set in S401: a value of 180° or less and a value of 180° or more. The value that is compared with the threshold is the smaller of these two values (clockwise angle and counterclockwise angle) (the value of 180° or less). For example, when performing the S603 process on person 505 in Figure 5(b), the absolute values of the difference between the location angle of person 505 (210°) and the location angle of person 501 (0°) are obtained as 150° and 210°. In S603 , the system control unit 50 determines whether 150° is greater than the threshold.