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Akihiro Maenaka

Akihiro Maenaka, Kadoma City JP

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090033792Image Processing Apparatus And Method, And Electronic Appliance - An image processing apparatus includes a high resolution processing portion for generating a high-resolution image from a first low-resolution image to be a datum frame and M (M is an integer of one or larger) second low-resolution images, the high-resolution image having a higher resolution than the low-resolution images, and a region cutting out portion for setting a first target region in an image region of the first low-resolution image and for setting a second target region in an image region of the second low-resolution image. The high resolution processing portion calculates a pixel value of a region corresponding to the first target region in an image region of the high-resolution image based on pixel values of the first and the second target regions set by the region cutting out portion. The region cutting out portion scans the position of the first target region to be set in the first low-resolution image and sets the second target region at a position corresponding to the position of the first target region after the scan every time when the high resolution processing portion calculates the pixel value of the high-resolution image.02-05-2009
20110080503IMAGE SENSING APPARATUS - An image sensing apparatus includes an image sensor constituted of a light receiving pixel group which performs photoelectric conversion of an optical image of a subject, and a read control unit which performs switching between skip reading for thinning a part of the light receiving pixel group while reading an output signal of the light receiving pixel group, and addition reading for adding output signals of a plurality of light receiving pixels included in the light receiving pixel group while reading the same, for taking an image. The read control unit performs the switching between the skip reading and the addition reading while one moving image is being taken.04-07-2011

Patent applications by Akihiro Maenaka, Kadoma City JP

Akihiro Maenaka, Osaka JP

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20100020210Image Sensing Device And Image Processing Device - There is provided an image sensing device including: an image acquisition portion that switches between a plurality of reading methods in which pixel signals of a group of light receiving pixels arranged in an image sensor are read and that thereby acquires, from the image sensor, a first image sequence formed such that a plurality of first images having a first resolution are arranged chronologically and a second image sequence formed such that a plurality of second images having a second resolution higher than the first resolution are arranged chronologically; and an output image sequence generation portion that generates, based on the first and second image sequences, an output image sequence formed such that a plurality of output images having the second resolution are arranged chronologically, in which a time interval between sequentially adjacent two output images among the plurality of output images is shorter than a time interval between sequentially adjacent two second images among the plurality of second images.01-28-2010
20100033602Image-Shooting Apparatus - A super-resolution processing portion has a high-resolution image generation portion that fuses a plurality of first input images together to generate a high-resolution image. The first input images are shot at a shutter speed equal to or faster than the super-resolution limit shutter speed, which is the lower-limit shutter speed that enables super-resolution processing to make the resolution of the output image equal to or higher than that of the input images. According to the amount of exposure, one of the following different methods for super-resolution processing is selected: a first method that yields as the output image the high-resolution image; a second method that yields as the output image a weighted added image resulting from weighted addition of the high-resolution image and an image based on an averaged image; and a third method that yields as the output image a weighted added image resulting from weighted addition of the high-resolution image and an image based on a second input image.02-11-2010
20100053356Imaging Device And Video Signal Generating Method Employed In Imaging Device - Provided is an imaging device comprising means for binning by adding up and reading out pixel signals from a plurality of pixels arranged in a first direction and a second direction of a pixel arrangement of an imaging element. The imaging device is provided with first means for changing a combination pattern of added pixel signals on a per-frame basis, and second means for generating image signals for one frame based on added signals from plural frames having different combination patterns.03-04-2010
20100141823Image Processing Apparatus And Electronic Appliance - An output-image processing portion outputs an output image for display that contains a super-resolution-effect image indicating super-resolution effect—effect obtained when super-resolution processing is applied to an input image. Thus, having checked the output image for display, the user can recognize the degree of super-resolution effect. Accordingly, it is possible to easily judge whether or not the super-resolution processing is required.06-10-2010
20110007175Imaging Device and Image Reproduction Device - An imaging device (01-13-2011
20110063473IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGING DEVICE - A color interpolation process unit (03-17-2011