Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image generation apparatus and image generation method
- Patent Title (中): 图像生成装置和图像生成方法
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Application No.: US12094387Application Date: 2007-10-11
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Publication No.: US08094717B2Publication Date: 2012-01-10
- Inventor: Taro Imagawa , Kunio Nobori , Takeo Azuma
- Applicant: Taro Imagawa , Kunio Nobori , Takeo Azuma
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka
- Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee: Panasonic Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2006-285481 20061019
- International Application: PCT/JP2007/069821 WO 20071011
- International Announcement: WO2008/047664 WO 20080424
- Main IPC: H04N7/12
- IPC: H04N7/12 ; G06K9/36

Abstract:
An image generation apparatus generates a new video sequence with a high S/N ratio and suppressed motion blurs, from an original video sequence and a still image which are generated by capturing the same dark, moving object. The image generation apparatus includes: a capture condition decision unit (105) which decides, based on an incident-light amount, capture conditions under which the original video sequence and the still image are to be captured; an image receiving unit (101) which receives the original video sequence and the still image which are generated under the capture conditions; an integration processing unit (104a) which generates, from the original video sequence and the still image, the new video sequence including frames having a resolution equal to or higher than the still image, at a frame rate equal to or higher than the original video sequence, by reducing a difference between (i) a value of the still image and (ii) a sum of values of the frames in the new video sequence which correspond to an exposure period for the still image. The capture condition decision unit (105c) decides a longer duration of an exposure period as a duration of the still image capturing, as the incident-light amount is smaller. Here, the duration is longer than an frame interval of the original video sequence.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090263044A1 IMAGE GENERATION APPARATUS AND IMAGE GENERATION METHOD Public/Granted day:2009-10-22
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