Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and image pickup element for separating or extracting reflection component
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Application No.: US15540456Application Date: 2015-12-08
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Publication No.: US10362280B2Publication Date: 2019-07-23
- Inventor: Yuhi Kondo , Yasutaka Hirasawa , Ying Lu , Ayaka Nakatani
- Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Paratus Law Group, PLLC
- Priority: JP2015-038164 20150227
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/084400 WO 20151208
- International Announcement: WO2016/136085 WO 20160901
- Main IPC: H04N9/07
- IPC: H04N9/07 ; G06T7/514 ; H04N9/64 ; H04N9/04 ; G02B5/30 ; G02B5/20 ; H04N5/232 ; G01B11/24

Abstract:
An imaging unit 20 has a configuration in which an identical polarization pixel block made up of a plurality of pixels with an identical polarization direction is provided for each of a plurality of polarization directions and pixels of respective predetermined colors are provided in the identical polarization pixel block. A correction processing unit 31 performs correction processing such as white balance correction on a polarized image generated by the imaging unit 20. A polarized image processing unit 32 separates or extracts a reflection component using the polarized image after the correction processing. By using a polarized image of the separated or extracted reflection component, for example, it is possible to generate normal line information with high accuracy.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180013988A1 IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT Public/Granted day:2018-01-11
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