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- Patent Title: Pixel interpolation apparatus, imaging apparatus, pixel interpolation processing method, and integrated circuit
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Application No.: US15161954Application Date: 2016-05-23
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Publication No.: US09787954B2Publication Date: 2017-10-10
- Inventor: Junji Moriguchi , Hiromu Hasegawa
- Applicant: MegaChips Corporation
- Applicant Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Assignee: MegaChips Corporation
- Current Assignee: MegaChips Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Osaka-shi
- Agency: Oblon, McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2013-249475 20131202
- Main IPC: H04N9/04
- IPC: H04N9/04 ; G06T3/40

Abstract:
Provided are a pixel interpolation apparatus, imaging apparatus, program, and integrated circuit that appropriately perform pixel interpolation on an image signal obtained by a single-chip image sensor with a four-color array filter whatever array pattern the four-color array filter has. An imaging apparatus includes an imaging circuitry, a signal processing circuitry, and a pixel interpolation processing circuitry. The apparatus calculates a degree of correlation for pairs in two orthogonal directions for an image signal obtained by the imaging circuitry including a single-chip image sensor having a four-color array filter using pixel data in an area around a target pixel, and performs pixel interpolation using the correlation degree as a determination criterion. When a color component pixel with a color identical to a color of a color component pixel subjected to pixel interpolation is not located in the direction having the high correlation, the pixel interpolation apparatus obtains a change ratio in a direction orthogonal to the direction having the high correlation by using a pixel value resulting from color space conversion in the direction orthogonal to the direction having the high correlation, and performs pixel interpolation processing based on the change ratio.
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