IP Library Granted Patent US 8,792,017
Granted Patent B2
US 8,792,017 · App. 13/192,665 · Granted Jul 29, 2014

Image processing device, image processing method, and image pickup apparatus

Inventor: Koichi Kamon (Otokuni-gun, JP)
Assignee: Konica Minolta Opto, Inc.
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Patent No.
US 8,792,017
App. No.
13/192,665
Granted
Jul 29, 2014
Kind
B2
Abstract

An image processing device includes a corrector for performing an optical correction of correcting a distortion of an image by interpolating image data of the distorted picked-up image resulting from an optical characteristic of an image pickup section, and locally changing a resolution of the image; and a compressor for performing a dynamic range compression of compressing a dynamic range of the image data by extracting an illumination component from the image data based on a space frequency of the image, and compressing the extracted illumination component, wherein the compressor performs the dynamic range compression with respect to image data of an after-correction-image to be obtained after the optical correction is performed by the corrector.

Claims (4)

1. An image processing method, comprising:

a converting step of unifying multiple photoelectric conversion characteristics of image data of an image picked up by an image pickup section having multiple photoelectric conversion characteristics into a single photoelectric conversion characteristic; and

a correcting step of performing an optical correction of correcting a distortion of the image by interpolating the image data of the distorted picked-up image resulting from an optical characteristic of the image pickup section, and locally changing a resolution of the image, wherein

the converting step is performed before the correcting step.

Assignments (3)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Nov 1, 2016
From: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
To: SONY SEMICONDUCTOR SOLUTIONS CORPORATION
Reel/Frame 040182/0404 →
CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 18, 2016
From: KONICA MINOLTA OPTO, INC.
To: KONICA MINOLTA ADVANCED LAYERS, INC.
Reel/Frame 039734/0828 →
MERGER AND CHANGE OF NAME Recorded Aug 18, 2016
From: KONICA MINOLTA ADVANCED LAYERS, INC.; KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.; KONICA MINOLTA HOLDINGS, INC.
To: KONICA MINOLTA, INC.
Reel/Frame 039785/0733 →
Priority Claims (1)
JP 2007-221584 · Aug 28, 2007 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 12197483 · Aug 25, 2008
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