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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8184183 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method and program with direction-dependent smoothing based on determined edge directions An image processing apparatus is configured as follows. Namely, an image processing apparatus is provided with an imaging device in which a plurality of types of imaging elements having different spectral sensitivities are aligned on a single plane and which obtains... | 05/22/2012 |
| RE43357 | Color interpolator and horizontal/vertical edge enhancer using two line buffer and alternating even/odd filters for digital camera A digital-camera processor receives a stream of mono-color pixels in a Bayer pattern from a sensor. Two lines of the pattern are stored in a 2-line buffer. Red, Blue, and Green interpolators receive a 3×3 array of pixels from the 2-line buffer. The interpolators ge... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8154634 | Image processing device that merges a plurality of images together, image shooting device provided therewith, and image processing method in which a plurality of images are merged together A merged image is generated by merging together a first image obtained by shooting with a reduced exposure time, a second image obtained by shooting with an increased exposure time, and a third image obtained by filtering out a high-frequency component from the firs... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8125544 | Image processing apparatus for extracting quadrangle area in image An image processing apparatus includes: a line segment detecting unit configured to detect vertical line segments and horizontal line segments in an image; a facing-lines candidate generating unit configured to generate vertical and horizontal facing-lines candidate... | 02/28/2012 |
| 8120679 | Image processing method An image processing method for executing edge enhancement for an original image includes: extracting edge components based upon the original image; correcting the extracted edge components by attenuating the individual edge components so that a frequency distributio... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8040408 | Image signal processing apparatus, image capturing apparatus, and image signal processing method An image signal processing apparatus is disclosed. A peaking signal generation section extracts and amplifies high frequency components contained in an input image signal to generate a peaking signal. An operation section allows a target area for which contour corre... | 10/18/2011 |
| 8035706 | Image processing apparatus and digital camera Contour extraction circuits extract contour components YE, CbE, and CrE, respectively, from luminance signal Y, and color-difference signals Cb and Cr, respectively. The two contour components CbE and CrE of the color difference signals are inputted to the LUTs resp... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8035705 | Image processing system, image processing method, and image processing program product An image processing system including: a CCD which outputs an image signal; an edge extraction unit which extracts an edge signal from the image signal; a false edge estimation unit which estimates an edge signal that arises due to noise components based upon the ima... | 10/11/2011 |
| 8004588 | Image processing procedure for receiving mosaic image data and calculating vertical and horizontal-direction color difference components for each pixel An image processing procedure receives mosaic image data and calculates vertical and horizontal-direction color difference components for each pixel. The image processing procedure subsequently selects an R pixel or a B pixel from the mosaic image data, and compares... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7999867 | Image edge detection apparatus and method, image sharpness emphasizing apparatus and method, recorded meduim recorded the program performing it The present invention relates to an apparatus for and a method of providing a sharper image by preventing the deterioration of an image caused by the difference in dynamic ranges of a center part and a surrounding part of the image photographed by an image sensor or... | 08/16/2011 |
| RE42555 | Merged pipeline for color interpolation and edge enhancement of digital images A digital-camera processor receives mono-color digital pixels from an image sensor. Each mono-color pixel is red, blue, or green. The stream of pixels from the sensor has alternating green and red pixels on odd lines, and blue and green pixels on even lines in a Bay... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7956911 | Digital photographing apparatus, and method and program for controlling the same A digital photographing apparatus capable of obtaining an image in which a distant subject is clearly represented and a near subject is naturally represented, and a method and program for controlling the same. The digital photographing apparatus includes a range det... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7956910 | Apparatus and method for correcting image edge An apparatus and method for correcting an edge are provided. The apparatus includes a luminance corrector obtaining a corrected luminance value of a center pixel in a first window of a predetermined size, the first window located at the edge of the input image, by u... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7932939 | Apparatus and method for correcting blurred images In an image processing apparatus that performs image processing on an image supplied from an imaging apparatus that captured an original image and that performed gamma processing on the original image to generate the image to be supplied to the image processing appa... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7920187 | Image pickup device that identifies portions of a face An image pickup device includes an image pickup unit configured to convert an optical image of a subject to image data and to output the image data, a face image recognition unit configured to recognize face image from the image data, and a face portion judgment uni... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7898583 | Image processing device, image processing method, and image sensing apparatus An image processing device includes: a frequency divider for performing a frequency division processing of dividing an input image into a plurality of frequency components each having a frequency band; a noise remover for performing a noise component removal process... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7893974 | Apparatus, method, and computer program for processing information An information processing apparatus for correcting chromatic aberration of video data, includes a white saturation pixel detecting unit for detecting a white saturation pixel having white saturation using a G signal of the video data composed of an RGB signal, a spa... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7876370 | Image capture apparatus with noise removal using high frequency signal extraction An image capture apparatus includes a high frequency signal extraction unit, a first filter unit, a second filter unit and a level setting unit. The high frequency signal extraction unit extracts a high frequency signal from an input signal. The first filter unit ap... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7855739 | Image signal processing apparatus In an image signal processing apparatus, line memories conventionally provided at a latter stage of the apparatus in order to convert a VGA image signal into a CIF image signal are eliminated. Image data of the VGA held in a unit of one line in plural line memories ... | 12/21/2010 |
| 7852387 | Apparatus and method for correcting blurred images In an image processing apparatus that performs image processing on an image supplied from an imaging apparatus that captured an original image and that performed gamma processing on the original image to generate the image to be supplied to the image processing appa... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7847842 | Preventing green non-uniformity in image sensors The present invention relates to digital image sensors and in particular to contour filters (ZSB, 7) preventing green non-uniformity in the contour signal of the RGB Bayer image sensors. A set of rules is specified for designing the filter coefficients in the filter... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7812868 | Signal processing method and apparatus, and image sensing apparatus At least two high-frequency signals are generated using luminance signals of at least two color components contained in a video signal, and a high-frequency signal for edge emphasizing processing is generated from the at least two generated high-frequency signals ba... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7800664 | Digital photographic instrument, method for adjusting focus of digital photographic instrument, and program for digital photographic instrument There is provided a digital photographic instrument comprising an edge enhancing section which enhances the edge of image data. The instrument determines whether a focus is good or bad and adjusts the degree of edge enhancement in the edge enhancing section accordin... | 09/21/2010 |
| 7733394 | Focus state display apparatus and focus state display method A focus state display apparatus comprising focus area extraction means for extracting the image signals of a predetermined area from photographed image signals, edge enhancement processing means for enhancing the edge of the extracted image signals, time integration... | 06/08/2010 |
| 7710474 | Luminance signal processing device A filter section performs color carrier component removal and high-frequency level correction according to color image signal data, and a correction section performs edge enhancement correction. By these operations, luminance signal data is obtained. The characteris... | 05/04/2010 |
| 7697044 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method The image processing apparatus includes an RGB-YUV converter for converting a color image into a luminance signal and a color difference signal and a YUV false color remover for removing false color based on the luminance signal Y and the color difference signals U,... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7683950 | Method and apparatus for correcting a channel dependent color aberration in a digital image A method, and digital capture apparatus for use therewith, is described for correcting a channel dependent color aberration in a digital image, where the digital image is composed of a plurality of color channels. The method includes capturing an image comprising th... | 03/23/2010 |
| 7649556 | Selection of image data for output At least either of image data and image generation record information is analyzed to determine an image quality parameter relating to image quality, and an output target decision regarding selection of image data as an output target is performed on the basis of the ... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7649557 | Apparatus for processing a digital image signal and methods for processing a digital image signal An apparatus for processing a digital image signal includes a pseudo-luminance generator configured to generate pseudo-luminance signals from the image signal. An edge detector detects an edge in the image signal using a part of an interpolated image signal as a lum... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7616240 | Image processing method, image processing program, image processing apparatus, and digital still camera using the image processing apparatus Electronic data output from CCD is separated into a brightness component Y and color difference components Cb and Cr and an edge is extracted for each of the components. The edge amounts are calculated from the extracted edges and the component having the maximum ed... | 11/10/2009 |
| 7589771 | Image processing apparatus, image processing method, image pickup apparatus, computer program and recording medium Noises are reduced in an image picked up in natural light without using lighting equipment that affect the picked up image. The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a visible light image and a... | 09/15/2009 |
| 7535503 | Image processing apparatus, image processing program, and image processing method for performing edge enhancement processing An image processing apparatus of the present invention can perform appropriate edge enhancement processing on any image while preventing increases in noise and chromatic aberration in the process of image processing. The image processing apparatus obtains photograph... | 05/19/2009 |
| 7489350 | Unit for and method of sharpness enhancement An image processing apparatus (100) comprises: receiving means for receiving a video signal representing input images; a film-detector unit (108) for detecting whether the input images have been captured by a film camera or by a video camera; and a sha... | 02/10/2009 |
| 7471320 | Electronic pan tilt zoom video camera with adaptive edge sharpening filter An apparatus and a method is provided for enhancing a digital image comprised of pixels by adaptively sharpening the pixels and clipping the numerical values of the sharpened edge pixels so as to fall between the smallest unsharpened numerical value and the greatest... | 12/30/2008 |
| 7468749 | Image taking apparatus, and a method of controlling an edge enhancing level of an original image signal According to the image taking apparatus and the method of controlling an edge enhancing level of an original image signal, as the electronic zooming rate for the original image signal increases, an amplitude level of the edge signal decreases in a direction contrary... | 12/23/2008 |
| 7453504 | Signal processing method and apparatus, and image sensing apparatus At least two high-frequency signals are generated using luminance signals of at least two color components contained in a video signal, and a high-frequency signal for edge emphasizing processing is generated from the at least two generated high-frequency signals ba... | 11/18/2008 |
| 7433534 | Edge emphasizing circuit An edge emphasizing circuit includes a weighing addition circuit, and the weighing addition circuit performs on the basis of a weighing coefficient applied from a coefficient calculating circuit a weighing addition with respect to raw image data and data obtained by... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7428012 | Image processing method including generating face region information and a digital camera including face region identification unit Effectively reducing a noise on the face region to improve the picture quality of the entire image A digital camera according to the invention includes: an digital signal processor for performing image processing including contour correction on a shot image; ... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7420592 | Image shifting apparatus for enhanced image resolution An image shifting apparatus may capture multiple frames of an image, with each frame offset by a sub-pixel offset distance. After capture, the various sub-pixel offset images may be registered together and analyzed using known resolution enhancement algorithms. Supe... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7420601 | Digital camera and method of controlling a digital camera to determine image sharpness Provided is a method of controlling a digital camera to enlarge part of an object included in a captured image and display the enlarged part of the captured image on a screen so that the user determines sharpness of the image, which includes determining whether a hu... | 09/02/2008 |
