Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging device
- Patent Title (中): 成像设备
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Application No.: US11734086Application Date: 2007-04-11
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Publication No.: US07792356B2Publication Date: 2010-09-07
- Inventor: Masaaki Sato , Shinichiro Saito , Hirotake Cho
- Applicant: Masaaki Sato , Shinichiro Saito , Hirotake Cho
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
- Priority: JP2006-111633 20060414
- Main IPC: G06K9/00
- IPC: G06K9/00

Abstract:
An imaging device includes an image sensor having a plurality of chromatic color pixels and high-sensitivity pixels having higher sensitivity to incident light than the chromatic color pixels arranged in a checkerboard pattern, a correlation detector that detects correlation of an imaged subject from a signal component of the high-sensitivity pixels and a signal component of the chromatic color pixels, a color judgment block that judges whether or not the imaged subject is of chromatic color from the signal component of the chromatic color pixels, and a pixel interpolator that switches between pixel interpolation methods according to the signal judged in the color judgment block that judges whether or not the subject is of chromatic color, the pixel interpolator giving high priority to interpolation using pixels showing strong correlation based on the information from the correlation detector when the color judgment block judges that the subject is of chromatic color.
Public/Granted literature
- US20080123943A1 IMAGING DEVICE Public/Granted day:2008-05-29
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