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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184181 | Image capturing system and computer readable recording medium for recording image processing program An image capturing system includes: a first noise reduction unit which roughly removes the effects of an edge component by performing edge-preserving adaptive noise reduction processing on a target pixel within a local region including the target pixel and the neigh... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184182 | Image processing apparatus and method An image processing apparatus and method are provided. The image processing apparatus includes a blur kernel estimator and an image restorer. The blur kernel estimator is configured to estimate a blur kernel of a first image using the first image and a second image,... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8179454 | Image compensation method and image acquisition device using the same An image compensation method adapted to reduce noise of a first image captured by an image acquisition device at a high ISO mode. The image compensation method includes the following steps. A Bayer pattern is obtained from the first image. A green pixel signal, a lo... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179455 | Optical black-level cancellation for optical sensors using open-loop sample calibration amplifier A Optical Black Pixel (OBP) cancellation circuit corrects offsets in sensors in a CCD/CMOS image sensor when reading dark pixels such at the periphery. A pixel voltage is switched to a sampling capacitor during two phases of the same pixel pulse. Sampling capacitors... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8174589 | Image sensing apparatus and control method therefor A period of periodical noise caused by a period of a drive signal of a CMOS sensor and a period of a signal generated by driving of a circuit other than the CMOS sensor is acquired, and a length of a horizontal blanking period is adjusted so that one horizontal peri... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8174590 | Image pickup apparatus and image pickup method The present invention is an image pickup apparatus provided with a pixel section in which pixels each including a photoelectric conversion section and a signal storage section that temporarily stores a signal charge of the photoelectric conversion section are two-di... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8169510 | Data processing device, data processing method, and storage medium The present invention relates to a data processing device, a data processing method, and a recording medium that enable a user to have a bodily sensation of collection of a material such as image data or the like, and editing. A processing section 31 g... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169509 | Image pickup system with signal noise reduction In the image pickup system of the present invention, factors that have an effect on noise such as the signal level, temperature of the CCD during shooting, exposure time, gain and the like are dynamically acquired, the noise level of the CCD is estimated, for exampl... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8169508 | Image input apparatus for forming a composite image based on a photoelectric conversion signal and a saturation signal At least one exemplary embodiment is directed to an image input apparatus including a plurality of pixel sections, each including a light-sensitive element configured to generate electric charge by photoelectric conversion, a semiconductor region configured to recei... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8164657 | Pixel or column fixed pattern noise mitigation using partial or full frame correction with uniform frame rates Systems and methods are provided that facilitate mitigating pixel or column fixed pattern noise in a CMOS imaging System-on-Chip (iSoC) sensor. For instance, pixel or column fixed pattern noise can be recognized by gating a pixel array without firing a transfer sign... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164658 | 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 ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8159566 | Method and apparatus for compensating signal distortion caused by noise Provided are an apparatus and a method for compensating signal distortion caused by noise. The apparatus comprises a noise reduction unit which reduces noise of an input signal including non-zero mean random noise, and a signal compensator which compensates the outp... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159568 | Hardware implemented pixel level digital filter and processing of electromagnetic signals An apparatus for performing digital video processing of electromagnetic waves in IR or other electromagnetic waves spectra; derived from adjacent or separate bands (or sub-bands) representing a channel of electromagnetic wave intensities; that is processed for equip... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8159567 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method An image processing apparatus and an image processing method, enabling achievement of both an effect of improvement of motion-picture response and a reduction of flicker even in a case of a low frame rate, are provided. The apparatus has a processing region detectio... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8154630 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer readable storage medium which stores image processing program An image processing apparatus includes a noise reduction unit which performs noise reduction processing to image signals, a first noise presumption unit which presumes a first noise amount from a present image signal among the image signals, and a second noise presu... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154627 | Imaging device To improve sensitivity by adding pixels, and improve precision of pixel interpolation in an imaging device. An imaging device is provided in which pixels are added along a horizontal direction or a vertical direction to improve sensitivity of an imaging eleme... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154629 | Noise canceling circuit, noise canceling method, and solid-state imaging device A noise canceling circuit that includes a sharp/flat-part determining unit that determines whether a neighborhood of a target pixel in a digital video signal is a sharp part or a flat part by calculating a sharpness value indicating sharpness and an approximate nois... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8154628 | Image processing apparatus and imaging apparatus and method An image processing apparatus (5) that corrects an input image signal (Xin) pixel by pixel to generate a corrected image signal (Xout), having a filtering means (2) that determines a luminance distribution of a pixel to be corrected and pixels neighbor... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8149302 | Method of processing noise in image data, noise reduction unit, and imaging apparatus A method of processing noise in image data by an image processor having a signal-processing portion converting an image signal from an image sensor into a digital signal and outputting the converted signal as image data for each frame, the image data indicating sets... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149299 | Apparatus and method for generating a picture having a high visibility A first filter generates a first smooth picture by smoothing an input picture. A second filter generates a second smooth picture by smoothing the input picture. The second filter has a characteristic different from the first filter. A contrast component picture calc... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149300 | Radiometric calibration from noise distributions Technologies that enable correcting for the non-linear relationship between scene irradiance and digital pixel intensity values of an image of the scene produced by a camera. Imaging noise is used as a signal from which a corrective function is derived. Noise distri... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8149301 | Image processing device, correction information generation method, and image-capturing device An image processing device that corrects and interpolates pixel values of defective pixels present upon an image sensor, includes: a position information storage memory that stores a position of a defective pixel of a first type whose pixel value can be utilized aft... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8144219 | Pixel processing method and image processing system thereof A pixel processing method includes: determining a first difference magnitude according to a difference between a predetermined color component value of a target pixel and a predetermined color component of a surrounding pixel positioned on a first direction, determi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8144220 | Methods for capturing and reading out images from an image sensor Multiple images are captured where the exposure times for some of the images overlap and the images are spatially overlapped. Charge packets are transferred from one or more portions of pixels after particular integration periods, thereby enabling the portion or por... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8130288 | Image processing apparatus An image processing apparatus includes a QV converter that converts an electric charge accumulated in an effective pixel portion into an analog video signal and also converts an electric charge of a shaded pixel portion into an analog shaded signal, a signal process... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8125543 | Solid-state imaging device and imaging apparatus with color correction based on light sensitivity detection A solid-state imaging device includes: a first detecting portion that detects each component by dividing a first wavelength region of image information into a plurality of wavelength regions; a second detecting portion that detects components in the first wavelength... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120677 | Imaging apparatus, adjustment method of black level, and program An imaging apparatus according to the present invention is arranged with an OB level difference correcting unit for performing a process by sectionalizing a vertical pre-stage OB unit to a first region positioned on a side opposite to an effective pixel unit along a... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120676 | Image distortion correcting method, carrier medium carrying distortion correcting program, and optical apparatus A proposition is to provide a distortion correcting method, a carrier medium carrying distortion correcting program and an optical apparatus which can perform reliable and good distortion correction while suppressing the quantity of information in distortion correct... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8120678 | Method for eliminating image noise and apparatus using the method Provided are method and apparatus for eliminating image noise caused by variation between the imaging pixels on an image sensor. Preferably, a uniform light source is provided firstly, and the image sensor records exposure values taken from the source. Method is to ... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8115834 | Image processing device, image processing program and image processing method An image processing device for performing color conversion processing on a VS (video signal obtained from a color CCD) includes a region defining section, which estimates an amount of noise of the VS, according to an ISO-sensitivity and a white-balance-coefficient, ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8115833 | Image-acquisition apparatus The object is to provide a uniform impression of noise for an entire image signal by performing grayscale conversion and noise reduction in a balanced manner. The signal processing unit performs first signal conversion on an image signal from an image-acquisition de... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8106969 | Device and method for removing grid noise A device and a method for removing grid noises are disclosed. The device for removing grid noises in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention calculates an average value of each line of an inputted Bayer pattern image, calculates an estimate value esti... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106973 | Image processing method, image processing device, and image capturing device There is provided an image processing method configured to process an image captured by using an optical system with a wide view angle and a large magnification chromatic aberration, wherein a magnification chromatic aberration correction is conducted by conducting ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106970 | Signal processing method, signal processing system, coefficient generating device, and digital camera An estimated noise shape estimated to be included in the signal to be corrected is calculated based on a calibration signal including a noise correlating with the noise of the signal to be corrected so as to correct a noise of a signal to be corrected. A correction ... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106972 | Apparatus and method for noise reduction with 3D LUT A device for noise reduction is provided. The device includes a noise reduction three-dimensional look-up table (LUT) and a noise reduction unit. The noise reduction LUT transforms an input image into a noise reduction factor and noise reduction threshold for each c... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106971 | Apparatus and method for estimating signal-dependent noise in a camera module A method and apparatus for estimating signal-dependent noise in a camera module are provided, in which an image is decomposed into high frequency components and low frequency components, a variance of noise in the image is estimated using the low frequency component... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8106968 | System and method for pattern detection and camera calibration Detecting a pattern in an image by receiving the image of a pattern and storing the image in a memory, where the pattern is composed of shapes that have geometrical properties that are invariant under near projective transforms. In some embodiments the process detec... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8102441 | Solid-state imaging apparatus A solid-state imaging apparatus including: a pixel section with a plurality of pixels arranged into two dimensions, each having a photoelectric conversion section for effecting photoelectric conversion, an accumulation section for temporarily storing a signal genera... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8102442 | Image sensor circuit An image sensor circuit comprises a pixel cell array having a plurality of pixel cells arranged along a plurality of column lines, a plurality of readout circuits connected to said column lines, each of which comprises an analog-to-digital converter and a multiplexe... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8098302 | Stain detection system An image pickup unit that does not have a movable system and is fixed at one point picks up an image. A subject region extraction unit detects a subject in the image, extracts a region of the subject, and generates a region extraction image. A region extraction imag... | 01/17/2012 |
