Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Imaging apparatus, signal processing method, and program
- Patent Title (中): 成像装置,信号处理方法和程序
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Application No.: US14238216Application Date: 2012-06-29
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Publication No.: US09357137B2Publication Date: 2016-05-31
- Inventor: Tomoo Mitsunaga
- Applicant: Tomoo Mitsunaga
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee: Sony Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Wolf, Greenfield & Sacks, P.C.
- Priority: JP2011-190054 20110831; JP2011-273426 20111214
- International Application: PCT/JP2012/066671 WO 20120629
- International Announcement: WO2013/031368 WO 20130307
- Main IPC: H04N5/238
- IPC: H04N5/238 ; H04N5/335 ; H04N5/235 ; H04N5/353 ; H04N5/355 ; H04N5/3745 ; H04N9/04

Abstract:
Apparatus and method for generating a wide dynamic range image by executing a pixel value combination process of a plurality of different exposure time setting pixels. Control of a different exposure time is performed for each of a plurality of pixels of the same colors configuring a pixel block and an addition pixel value obtained by adding outputs of the plurality of pixels of the same colors of the pixel block is generated. The generation of the addition pixel value is executed by an adding unit that adds the outputs of the plurality of pixels of the same colors of the pixel block. Or, the generation of the addition pixel value is executed by a floating diffusion set in a pixel block unit and a charge output from each of the plurality of pixels of the same colors configuring the pixel block is accumulated and output in the floating diffusion.
Public/Granted literature
- US20140192250A1 IMAGING APPARATUS, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAM Public/Granted day:2014-07-10
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