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| 20090086817 | IMAGE ENCODING APPARATUS AND IMAGE ENCODING METHOD - An image capturing apparatus | 04-02-2009 |
| 20090201392 | NOISE REDUCTION APPARATUS AND IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS - A noise reduction apparatus, in which an occurrence of overcorrection attributed to an erroneous detection is prevented. A storage unit stores a pseudo noise signal generating characteristic. A pseudo noise generating unit sets a signal which may become a source of a noise superimposed on a video signal as a reference input signal and generates a pseudo noise signal corresponding to the superimposed noise using the pseudo noise signal generating characteristic which is stored in the storage unit and which corresponds to the reference input signal. A subtraction unit subtracts the pseudo noise signal from the video signal. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20110149123 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD - An image processing apparatus comprises: a storage unit storing a first group of defective pixel data including positional information on a defective pixel of an image sensor and information on a type of defect; a detection unit which detects a defective pixel of the image sensor and generates a second group of defective pixel data; a combining unit which combines the first and second groups to generate a third group; and a correction unit which corrects an image signal output from a defective pixel of the image sensor using the third group, wherein the combining unit assigns a priority level corresponding to the type of defect to each piece of defective pixel data, and if there are multiple pieces of defective pixel data including common positional information, leaves the defective pixel data in the order of priority level, the highest the first and the lowest the last. | 06-23-2011 |
| 20120013752 | IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image processing device calculates a coordinate transformation coefficient for each of a plurality of regions, and, for at least one point of interest in a local region, calculates a correction amount that is used when blur in a target image is corrected using a coordinate transformation coefficient for the local region and a correction amount that is used when the blur in the target image is corrected using a coordinate transformation coefficient for a region neighboring the local region. In this case, if the correction amount difference does not fall within a predetermined limit value, a coordinate transformation coefficient is newly obtained for each of the plurality of regions including the local region so that the correction amount difference falls within the predetermined limit value, and the target image is corrected for each region using the newly obtained coordinate transformation coefficient. | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120155761 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus capable of performing chromatic aberration of magnification and noise reduction without decrease in processing performance and increase in the cost is provided. A format conversion circuit in the image processing apparatus converts first image data including an array of color components of red (R), green (G1 and G2), and blue (B) into second image data including the color components of R and B and a luminance component by performing false color suppression processing on the first image data separately using the color components of G1 and G2, and stores the data in an image buffer region. A circuit for correcting chromatic aberration of magnification reads the second data stored in the image buffer region and performs the correction of chromatic aberration of magnification. | 06-21-2012 |
| 20120200744 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, AND RECORDING MEDIUM - A first image captured using a first exposure and a second image captured using a second exposure higher than the first exposure are obtained. A third image used as a reference for combining processing is created from the first image. An image, a dynamic range of which is extended, is created by weighted-combining the first and second images using adding coefficients, which are associated with pixel values of the third image in advance. | 08-09-2012 |
| 20130286246 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a calculation unit configured to calculate a first gain for adjusting brightness of a first image and a second image based on the first image captured at a first exposure amount and the second image captured at a second exposure amount, a division unit configured to divide the first gain into a second gain which changes according to a position in an image and a third gain which does not change according to a position in an image, a first gain correction unit configured to perform gain correction on the second image with the second gain, and a second gain correction unit configured to perform gain correction on the second image with the third gain. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130287297 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD AND PROGRAM - An image processing apparatus capable of performing chromatic aberration of magnification and noise reduction without decrease in processing performance and increase in the cost is provided. A format conversion circuit in the image processing apparatus converts first image data including an array of color components of red (R), green (G1 and G2), and blue (B) into second image data including the color components of R and B and a luminance component by performing false color suppression processing on the first image data separately using the color components of G1 and G2, and stores the data in an image buffer region. A circuit for correcting chromatic aberration of magnification reads the second data stored in the image buffer region and performs the correction of chromatic aberration of magnification. | 10-31-2013 |
| 20130329019 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS THAT ESTIMATES DISTANCE INFORMATION, METHOD OF CONTROLLING THE SAME, AND STORAGE MEDIUM - An image processing apparatus free from the inconvenience of an increase in the number of focal positions for image pickup or reduction of the distance accuracy. An optical imaging system forms an object image and an image pickup device picks up the formed object image. A first range image is generated from a plurality of images picked up by the image pickup device and having parallax. A second range image is generated from a plurality of images picked up by the image pickup device and having different degrees of focus at respective corresponding locations therein. A synthesis coefficient is calculated according to the depth of field of a main object selected from objects shown in the object image. A synthesized range image is generated by synthesizing the generated first range image and second range image using the calculated synthesis coefficient. | 12-12-2013 |
| 20140072241 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a correlation value map generation unit configured to generate a correlation value map by setting a target block, having a predetermined size and including a plurality of pixels, on a target image, and obtaining correlation values with a plurality of reference blocks corresponding to a target block set on a reference image different from the target image. The image processing apparatus also includes a detection unit configured to detect deviation between a reference block having a maximum correlation with the target block from the correlation value map, and the target block, as a motion vector of the target block, and a reliability evaluation unit configured to evaluate reliability of the motion vector by evaluating whether a distribution of correlation values whose correlation are local maximum is linear from the correlation value map. | 03-13-2014 |
