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- Un aparato de tratamiento de imágenes para el tratamiento de una señal de imagen de color que comprende: un amplificador de equilibrio de blancos (141) para variar individualmente los niveles para cada una de las señales de color de la señal de imagen de color; unos medios (161) de regulación de ganancia de amplificador para regular ganancias de amplificador de equilibrio de blanco para cada una de las señales de color de la señal de imagen de color de acuerdo con valores de control de ajuste; medios (16) de estimación de color de una fuente de luz para estimar la relación R/G y la relación B/G para establecer el equilibrio de blanco de la señal de imagen de color, considerando una distribución espectral de una fuente de luz de captación de imagen para la señal de imagen de color; medios (163) de estimación de nivel de iluminación para estimar, basado en la señal de imagen de color, un nivel de iluminancia (LV) para una iluminación de la señal de imagen de color; medios (162) de modulación del valor de control para modular dicha relación R/G y dicha relación B/G de la señal de imagen de color, en el que dichos medios (162) de modulación del valor de control mueven dichas relaciones en una dirección paralela a un lugar geométrico del cuerpo negro (fig. 4) o a un lugar geométrico en función de una variación de temperatura de color de la luz de día sobre el sistema de coordenadas de cromaticidad definidas por dichas relaciones, en una dirección hacia una línea de cromaticidad de referencia correspondiente al valor de una de dichas relaciones, siendo dicho valor la coordenada de cromaticidad de un punto sobre dicha diagrama de cromaticidad que corresponde al ajuste que se ha de realizar de forma que un objeto acromático bajo una fuente de luz de referencia predeterminada sea reproducido como un objeto acromático; medios de control de modulación (162) destinados a variar la cantidad de modulación de dichas relaciones por dichos medios (162) de modulación del valor de control según el nivel de iluminancia (LV), en el que dichos medios de control de modulación modulan la cantidad de movimiento de dichas relaciones por una cantidad de modulación y ajusta la cantidad de modulación de manera que disminuya cuando el nivel de iluminancia (LV) aumenta; en el que los medios (161) de regulación de ganancia de amplificador están dispuestos para ajustar las ganancias de amplificador de equilibrio de blanco para cada una de las señales de color de la señal de imagen de color de acuerdo con las relaciones moduladas.
Abstract:
An amplifier gain setting section estimates a light source parameter which relies upon a spectral distribution of an image pickup light source based on an image signal. Then, a first adjustment control value for each color signal when adjustment is to be performed so as to establish a white balance based on the estimated parameter is modulated by an amount corresponding to a follow-up sensitivity toward a second adjustment control value when adjustment is to be performed so that an achromatic subject under a particular reference light source is reproduced as an achromatic subject. The modulated adjustment control value is set to a white balance amplifier. The follow-up sensitivity is set to the amplifier gain setting section in response to an illuminance level estimated from a detection value of the brightness.
Abstract:
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a method of mounting a fine chip such as a semiconductor chip by which a fine semiconductor chip or the like can be mounted at a desired place on a substrate efficiently with high yield. SOLUTION: The mount substrate 6 is dipped in a solution 2 scattered with fine chips (LED chips 3) to assemble the fine chips on the substrate in a self-hold manner. In this method of mounting a fine chip, bubbles 5 are generated on the mounting face of the substrate to control the assembling positions of the fine chips.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging apparatus and an image processor capable of correcting person's skin color area so as to have appropriate brightness, and to provide an art related thereto. SOLUTION: The imaging apparatus is configured to classify the skin color region as a skin color region among a plurality of classified regions resulting from classifying a photographed image, into a plurality of classes (LV1 to LV5) in accordance with a prescribed reference (for example, a reference according to brightness difference). Among the plurality of classes LV1 to LV5, the class (e.g. LV4) having the closest number of belonging skin color regions to the prescribed value is determined as the optimum class. The brightness of the photographed image is corrected based on the luminance of the skin color region that belongs to the optimum class (e.g. LV4). COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To prolong the life of a semiconductor light emitting device by setting a p-type impurity additive in a p-type clad layer to adequate concn. SOLUTION: An n-type clad layer 5, n-type guide layer 6, active layer 7, p-type guide layer 8 and p-type clad layer are laminated on a substrate 1. The p-type guide layer 8 is formed from a Ncontained ZnSSe mixed crystal and has a p-type semiconductor region 8a of 2∼10cm in N concn. at the p-type clad layer 9 side and intrinsic semiconductor region 8b at the active layer 7 side. The clad layer 9 is formed from a N-contained ZnMgSSe mixed crystal and has a low-concn. region 9a of 1×10 cm in N concn. at the p-type guide layer 8 side and high-concn. 9b of 2×1017 cm less than the additive saturated N concn. in N concn. on the opposite side.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To correct a skin color of an picked-up image to an ideal skin color. SOLUTION: One picked-up image is divided into a plurality of areas, for example, 7×7 areas, and a color of each area is discriminated. Data related to the color of an area judged to be a skin color are used to calculate a gain of white balance for obtaining the ideal skin color. A variation in luminance value of each area is used to discriminate whether the picked-up image has ruggedness or not. The number of areas which have ruggedness and are judged to be a skin color determines whether the calculated gain of white balance should be used or not. This method is applicable for a video camera which reproduces the ideal skin color by white balance adjustment. COPYRIGHT: (C)2004,JPO
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a semiconductor light-emitting element and a manufacturing method therefor which can easily reduce the defect density in and near an active layer and easily prolong the lifetime thereof. SOLUTION: A first conductivity type clad layer 5, a first guide layer 6, an active layer 7, a second guide layer 8 and a second conductivity type clad layer 9 are laminated in this order on an n type substrate 1. The second conductivity type clad layer 9 is irradiated with light (wavelength: 440 nm) having an energy larger than the band gap in the first conductivity type clad layer 5 and the second conductivity type clad layer 9, whereby the first conductivity type clad layer 5, the first guide layer 6, the active layer 7, the second guide layer 8 and the second conductivity type clad layer 9 absorb the light, respectively, and are excited to induce generation and recombination of carriers, which reduces the defect density. This improves light-emitting efficiency and prolongs the lifetime.
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an imaging device capable of correcting a flesh color area of a person to proper luminance, an image processing apparatus, and technique related to them. SOLUTION: The imaging device (image processing apparatus) is provided with: a detection means for detecting a flesh color area in a photographed image; a discrimination means for discriminating whether the photographed image is a forward-light image or a back-lighted image; a calculating means for setting weighting in the luminance of a pixel included in a high luminance area of comparatively high luminance and the luminance of a pixel included in a low luminance area of comparatively low luminance in accordance with the result of the determination in a luminance histogram about the flesh color area, and calculating correction luminance obtained by correcting luminance about the flesh color area on the basis of the weighting; and a correction means for correcting brightness of the photographed image on the basis of the correction luminance. COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT
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PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a technique adjusting white balance more accurately. SOLUTION: A lightness detection section 19 detects a luminance value Y from R, G, B signals outputted from a white balance adjustment amplifier 17 as lightness. An exposure amount setting section 20 generates a control signal d for controlling a diameter D of an opening 12A of an iris 12 on the basis of the luminance value Y, and applies the control signal d to a drive section 21. A white balance correction amount setting section 22 generates a correction gain kg(d) on the basis of the control signal d for controlling the diameter of the iris. A white balance amplifier gain setting section 23 corrects the R, G, B signals outputted from an AGC amplifier 16 on the basis of the correction gain kg(d) to adjust the gain of the white balance adjustment amplifier 17. An amplifier 17G of the G signal is controlled by the correction gain itself. The above technique can be applied to digital video cameras, digital still cameras, and other image pickup devices. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT