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| 20090015691 | IMAGE PICKUP APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING THE SAME - An image pickup apparatus for applying high-speed dark shading correction and reducing random noise in a black image is provided. The image pickup apparatus has an image pickup element capable of reading image signals corresponding to one frame, which are obtained by photoelectric conversion, on a field-by-field basis. With the image pickup element exposed to light, first image signals corresponding to one frame are read. Then, with the image pickup element shielded from light, second image signals are read from fields that are fewer than fields constituting one frame. Each of third image signals is generated by averaging the second image signals for each of blocks obtained by dividing the image pickup element and converting the average image signal for each block to a resolution of the first image signals. The third image signals are subtracted from the first image signals. | 01-15-2009 |
| 20090102951 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR COLOR-NOISE REDUCTION - In a color-noise reduction circuit in which a color-difference signal of a target pixel is substituted in a random substitution circuit ( | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090284614 | IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS, IMAGE CAPTURING SENSOR, AND IMAGE CAPTURING PROCESSING METHOD - This invention is directed to reduce a deterioration in image quality after thinning operation when pixels are read out upon thinning. An image sensor is designed such that different gains are applied on a pixel basis. After periodical gains are applied to the respective pixels, the pixels of the same colors are added and averaged to obtain a low-pass filter effect before thinning processing for the pixels in the sensor, thereby preventing the occurrence of aliasing (moiré) due to thinning. | 11-19-2009 |
| 20090315997 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM OF IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD EXECUTABLE BY COMPUTER - An image processing method is provided for detecting the position of a specific subject from a movie and combining a display of detection result indicating the detected position with the movie. The image processing method includes a step of determining, depending on a display time of the detection result, whether the detection result should be continuously displayed, when the subject cannot be detected during the display of the detection result combined with the movie. | 12-24-2009 |
| 20090322885 | IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND STORAGE MEDIUM STORING CONTROL PROGRAM OF IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD EXECUTABLE BY COMPUTER - An image processing method is provided for detecting the position of a specific subject from a movie and combining a display of detection result indicating the detected position with the movie. The image processing method includes a step of determining, depending on a display time of the detection result, whether the detection result should be continuously displayed, when the subject cannot be detected during the display of the detection result combined with the movie. | 12-31-2009 |
| 20100014775 | IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS AND IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD - An image processing apparatus includes a detection circuit configured to detect an image, a luminance correction circuit configured to determine luminance of the detected image and to execute correction for reducing a luminance variation in the detected image, and an extraction circuit configured to extract feature amount data from the detected image corrected by the correction circuit for use in authentication processing. | 01-21-2010 |
| 20100033600 | LUMINANCE SIGNAL GENERATION APPARATUS, LUMINANCE SIGNAL GENERATION METHOD, AND IMAGE CAPTURING APPARATUS - A luminance signal in which the occurrence of spatial aliasing in a diagonal direction component has been suppressed for a red or blue imaging subject is generated from an image signal read from an image sensor. A V-LPF and a H-LPF generate a first luminance signal in which the spatial frequency bandwidth has been limited. Also, a V-LPF and a H-LPF, which limit the spatial frequency bandwidth so as to be even lower than the V-LPF and the H-LPF, generate a second luminance signal in which the bandwidth has been limited. A first GR weighted-addition circuit generates a final luminance signal for a pixel of interest by performing weighted-addition on the first luminance signal and the second luminance signal such that the ratio of the second luminance signal increases as the intensity of the redness or blueness of the pixel of interest increases. | 02-11-2010 |
