Invention Grant
- Patent Title: White balance adjustment device and white balance adjustment method
- Patent Title (中): 白平衡调整装置和白平衡调整方法
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Application No.: US12137092Application Date: 2008-06-11
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Publication No.: US08144210B2Publication Date: 2012-03-27
- Inventor: Katsuhiro Nishiwaki , Hiroshi Nagatsuma , Yasuo Masui , Tadamasa Nakamura
- Applicant: Katsuhiro Nishiwaki , Hiroshi Nagatsuma , Yasuo Masui , Tadamasa Nakamura
- Applicant Address: JP
- Assignee: Elmo Company, Limited
- Current Assignee: Elmo Company, Limited
- Current Assignee Address: JP
- Agency: Ostrolenk Faber LLP
- Priority: JP2007-155189 20070612
- Main IPC: H04N9/73
- IPC: H04N9/73

Abstract:
To determine white balance convergence in a reliable manner, a white balance adjustment device for adjusting white balance of an input image supplied sequentially in time is provided. The white balance adjustment device comprises first and second integrating units. Each of the integrating units corrects a color component of a preceding input image based on mutually different correction parameter values. The integrating units respectively compute first and second integration values by integrating corrected color components. The first and second values to be used to correct the color component of a subsequent input image are determined by a correction parameter determining unit. The correction parameter determining unit changes the first and second values according to magnitude relationship between the first and second integration values and a benchmark value of the integration value. An image which has undergone the white balance adjustment is generated by correcting the color component of the image with a third value established between the first and second values.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080309790A1 WHITE BALANCE ADJUSTMENT DEVICE AND WHITE BALANCE ADJUSTMENT METHOD Public/Granted day:2008-12-18
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