Invention Application
- Patent Title: IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS, IMAGE PROCESSING METHOD, AND IMAGE PICKUP ELEMENT
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Application No.: US15540456Application Date: 2015-12-08
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Publication No.: US20180013988A1Publication Date: 2018-01-11
- 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
- Priority: JP2015-038164 20150227
- International Application: PCT/JP2015/084400 WO 20151208
- Main IPC: H04N9/07
- IPC: H04N9/07 ; G02B5/30 ; H04N9/64 ; G02B5/20 ; H04N5/232

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.
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