摘要:
Provided is an image pickup device that enables distortion compensation with high precision. Exposure and reading are conducted on pixel rows that are discontinuous with respect to a vertical direction of an image pickup element, and multiple low resolution images are obtained. Each of these multiple low resolution images has a lower distortion than an ordinary image obtained by conducting an ordinary continuous exposure and reading. Therefore, output images with reduced distortion can be generated by using the low resolution images.
摘要:
In a contour correcting circuit that generates, on the basis of respective signals for a plurality of pixels including the pixel to be corrected at the center and arranged in a particular direction, a contour correction signal for the pixel to be corrected, there are provided contour component production means for producing a contour component for the pixel to be corrected depending on the gradient of the change among the respective signals for the plurality of pixels arranged in the particular direction; gain calculation means for calculating, on the basis of the level difference between the signal for the pixel to be corrected and the signal for the pixel adjacent in the particular direction to the pixel to be corrected, such a gain for correction that the larger the level difference is, the smaller the gain becomes; multiplication means for multiplying the contour component produced by the contour component production means by the gain for correction calculated by the gain calculation means; and addition means for adding the results of the multiplication by the multiplication means to the signal for the pixel to be corrected, to generate the contour correction signal for the pixel to be corrected.
摘要:
The present invention relates to a method of converting 2D images into 3D images by producing from a 2D image signal a main image signal and a sub-image signal delayed from the main image signal. In the present invention, a temporary field delay from the main image signal to the sub-image signal is found on the basis of data related to the movement in the current field of the main image signal (a first step). A target field delay is then found on the basis of the temporary field delay found in the first step (a second step). A true field delay used in the succeeding field is found on the basis of the target field delay found in the second step and the true field delay used in the current field (a third step).
摘要:
Auto focus control and/or auto exposure control is carried out by using a luminance signal before gamma correction, before addition of aperture signal but after hand shake correction. Auto white balance control is carried out by using a color signal after hand shake correction. Consequently, precise auto focus control, auto exposure control and/or auto white balance control can be done. The field memory for electronic zooming and/or hand shake correction is also used as a field memory for noise reduction. Consequently, a video signal processing circuit which is inexpensive and simple can be implemented.
摘要:
An imaging device (1) includes: an imaging element (33) which outputs a signal expressing an optical image of an imaging object upon an imaging process; a particular object detection unit (14) which successively acquires a frame image based on an output signal of the imaging element and detects the position of the particular object contained in the imaging object on the frame image according to the image signal of the frame image; a cut-out unit (15) which sets in the frame image, a cut-out region smaller than the entire region of the frame image according to the detected position and extracts the image in the cut-out region as a cut-out image; and an image quality compensation unit (16) which improves the resolution of the cut-out image.
摘要:
A super-resolution processing portion has a high-resolution image generation portion that fuses a plurality of first input images together to generate a high-resolution image. The first input images are shot at a shutter speed equal to or faster than the super-resolution limit shutter speed, which is the lower-limit shutter speed that enables super-resolution processing to make the resolution of the output image equal to or higher than that of the input images. According to the amount of exposure, one of the following different methods for super-resolution processing is selected: a first method that yields as the output image the high-resolution image; a second method that yields as the output image a weighted added image resulting from weighted addition of the high-resolution image and an image based on an averaged image; and a third method that yields as the output image a weighted added image resulting from weighted addition of the high-resolution image and an image based on a second input image.
摘要:
An image processing apparatus includes a high resolution processing portion for generating a high-resolution image from a first low-resolution image to be a datum frame and M (M is an integer of one or larger) second low-resolution images, the high-resolution image having a higher resolution than the low-resolution images, and a region cutting out portion for setting a first target region in an image region of the first low-resolution image and for setting a second target region in an image region of the second low-resolution image. The high resolution processing portion calculates a pixel value of a region corresponding to the first target region in an image region of the high-resolution image based on pixel values of the first and the second target regions set by the region cutting out portion. The region cutting out portion scans the position of the first target region to be set in the first low-resolution image and sets the second target region at a position corresponding to the position of the first target region after the scan every time when the high resolution processing portion calculates the pixel value of the high-resolution image.
摘要:
In an image processing device, an edge detecting circuit 1 produces edge signals that represent edge components present in image signals, and an adder circuit 2 superimposes the edge signals on the image signals to produce edge-enhanced image signals. The image signals before edge enhancement are fed to a range setting circuit 3 so that, based on the image signals preceding and following a target image signal that is about to be processed by a clipper 4, a range in which the data value of the target image signal is allowed to vary is set. Based on the range of data values thus set by the range setting circuit 3, the clipper 4 clips the data values of the edge-enhanced image data.
摘要:
A left eye image signal and a right eye image signal which constitute a three-dimensional image are produced from a two-dimensional image signal. The horizontal phase of the produced left eye image signal is shifted, and the horizontal phase of the produced right eye image signal is shifted. Character signals are respectively mixed with the left eye image signal and the right eye image signal. A composite image comprising the three-dimensional image and the character signal is displayed on the basis of the left eye image signal with which the character signal is mixed and the right eye image signal with which the character signal is mixed.
摘要:
A method of converting two-dimensional images into three-dimensional images. When the movement of a main image is fast, a main image signal is written into field memories for each field. When the movement of the main image is slow, the main image signal is written into the field memories at intervals of a predetermined number of fields. An image to be read out as a sub-image from the field memories is determined on the basis of the speed of the movement of the main image.