摘要:
Disclosed is an image processing method of expanding the dynamic range by determining a saturated or noise region in an image signal and replacing the image signal with a proper image signal. A threshold value (step S4) is set in units of colors on the basis of a standard image signal for each color, which is obtained upon sensing an image in a standard exposure, and a non-standard image signal for each color, which is obtained upon sensing the image in a non-standard exposure. A saturated or noise region is determined by applying the threshold value set in units of colors to the standard image signal. A region determined as a saturated or noise region is replaced with the non-standard image signal.
摘要:
A 1-chip color video camera providing such a frequency characteristic that suffers from small attenuation up to high frequency range for a G signal which has highest degree of contribution to brightness, and hence providing high resolution, is disclosed. In the 1-chip color video camera (100) having a color separation circuit (8) for processing signals obtained from a solid-state image sensor (1) in which color filters (85) of R, G and B primaries arranged mosaic-wise for respective pixels, color signal components at a central portion of a pixel block consisting of four pixels of two rows by two columns on the solid-state image sensor are generated by interpolation using color signal components of a plurality of neighboring pixels.
摘要:
An image data processing apparatus for processing and transferring image data from memory cards to external devices, said apparatus comprising: an editing machine comprising a holding part for holding said memory cards, said memory cards for storing digital image data; a plurality of connecting parts for connecting said external devices to the editing machine, the external devices for storing digital image data; and data processing means for selectively delivering the digital image data stored in said memory card, held by said holding part, to a predetermined one or ones of said external devices connected to said connecting parts by either compression or expansion, and for delivering the digital image data stored in a predetermined one or ones of said external devices connected to said connecting parts to said memory cards held by said holding part by either compression or expansion.
摘要:
For obtaining both still and moving images in satisfactory manner in an image pickup device, in addition to a circuit for generating a moving image, frame recursive filters 18, 19, 20 and an interface circuit 21 are provided for generating a still image. Wide-band color signals R, G, B generated from the signals obtained from the CCD are subjected to a filtering process in the frame recursive filters 18, 19, 20 and the image retained in the filters 18, 19, 20 as a result of the filtering process is released as a still image under the control by the interface circuit 21. Thus the still and moving images can be generated respectively according to the required characteristics, without color blotting or color aberration and without deterioration in the color reproducibility and in the S/N ratio.
摘要:
A color camera apparatus comprises an image pickup element having a stripe/mosaic type color filter and photoelectrically converting an arriving optical image so as to obtain at least a signal including a brightness component and a color component multiplexed with each other. And, the apparatus comprises an A/D converter for digitizing above multiplexed signal, and a brightness signal processing circuit which separates the brightness component from the multiplexed signal and carries out an aperture correction by means of a delay element having a delay amount corresponding to two horizontal scanning period. And further, the apparatus comprises a color signal processing circuit which separates the color component from the multiplexed signal so as to obtain two line-sequential color difference components through a predetermined arithmetic procedure. And, the color signal processing circuit not only carries out a circular-type noise removal processing operation by means of the delay element having the delay amount corresponding to two horizontal scanning periods, but carries out a rearrangement of said line-sequential color difference components by use of the same delay line.
摘要:
A solid-state imaging element (31) and solid-state imaging elements (30, 32) are arranged spatially so as to be horizontally shifted half a pixel pitch from one another so that a light-sensitive portion of each pixel of the solid-state imaging elements (30, 32) may correspond to a light-insensitive portion of each pixel of the solid-state imaging element (31). A high-frequency component synthesizer circuit (49) produces the high-frequency components of a luminance signal on the basis of the signal E G obtained by performing nonlinear process on the output of the solid-state imaging element (31) and the signal E R + E B obtained by performing nonlinear process on the outputs of the solid-state imaging elements (30, 32) and mixing the resulting signals. At this time, based on the result of comparing the output signal of the solid-state imaging element (31) with the respective output signals of the solid-state imaging elements (30, 32), the mixing ratio of signal E R to E B is controlled.
摘要:
A digital zooming system comprises field memories (6) for saving a digital video signal forming a predetermined colour array; a sum/difference signal separator (5) for receiving the signal from the recording medium and then obtaining a sum value and difference value with respect to two neighbouring pixels among the pixels of the predetermined colour array; a correlation calculating circuit comprising a sum-value interpolation calculator (7 and 8) for performing horizontal and vertical interpolations with respect to the sum-value according to a zooming ratio and a difference-value interpolation calculator (9 and 10) for calculating the horizontal and vertical interpolations and a digital low pass filter to compensate for edge degradation; a sum/difference signal mixer (11) for receiving the interpolated sum value and difference value and producing the original digital video signal; a digital-to-analog converter (12) for converting the digital video signal from the mixer into analog form; an address generator (13) for generating an address signal for reading or writing the data recorded on the recording medium; a coefficient generator (14) for inputting coefficients conforming to the zooming ratio to the sum-value and difference-value interpolation calculators; and a control-signal generator (15) for generating a control signal for controlling each of the aforementioned elements. Hence, the system can be applied for a variety of magnifying factors and a high quality digital picture zoom can be accomplished.
摘要:
The invention is based on an electronic still camera (11) for converting a taken optical image of the subject into digital image data, and recording into a memory card (400) incorporating semiconductor memories, in which the digital image data obtained from this electronic still camera (11) is stored in a large-capacity recording medium through an exclusive recording device, or displayed in plural monitors (801), or stored in a disk or magnetic tape by existing recording devices (802, 803), or even compressed, expanded, edited or processed, so that it may satisfy versatile requests of users sufficiently.