Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image processing device, control method thereof, imaging device, and recording medium
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Application No.: US17162855Application Date: 2021-01-29
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Publication No.: US11317016B2Publication Date: 2022-04-26
- Inventor: Kazuma Sakato , Yohei Horikawa
- Applicant: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
- Priority: JPJP2020-016300 20200203
- Main IPC: H04N5/232
- IPC: H04N5/232 ; G06T5/40

Abstract:
An imaging device acquires a plurality of viewpoint image signals having different viewpoints from an imaging element. The imaging device selects a subject region within a captured image, and divides the subject region into a plurality of regions. The imaging device performs a correlation operation for each divided region, and calculates an amount of parallax on the basis of one or more extreme positions. In addition, the imaging device calculates distance information of a subject on the basis of the amount of parallax, and calculates a reliability for the distance information. If there are two or more pieces of distance information which are output in the divided region, the imaging device generates a distance histogram using the two or more pieces of distance information based on the reliability.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210243379A1 IMAGE PROCESSING DEVICE, CONTROL METHOD THEREOF, IMAGING DEVICE, AND RECORDING MEDIUM Public/Granted day:2021-08-05
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