Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Image processing device, image processing method and imaging device capable of performing parallax compensation for captured color image
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Application No.: US16488787Application Date: 2018-01-11
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Publication No.: US10999562B2Publication Date: 2021-05-04
- Inventor: Masatoshi Yokokawa , Masashi Uchida , Takahiro Nagano
- Applicant: SONY CORPORATION
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee: SONY CORPORATION
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Paratus Law Group, PLLC
- Priority: JPJP2017-060694 20170327
- International Application: PCT/JP2018/000464 WO 20180111
- International Announcement: WO2018/179671 WO 20181004
- Main IPC: H04N9/09
- IPC: H04N9/09 ; H04N9/04 ; H04N9/64

Abstract:
On the basis of a first imaging signal corresponding to a first viewpoint and including white pixels and color component pixels and a second imaging signal corresponding to a second viewpoint different from the first viewpoint and including fewer white pixels than the first imaging signal to increase a rate of the color component pixels in the second imaging signal, a parallax detecting section detects a parallax of the second viewpoint with respect to the first viewpoint. A parallax compensating section performs parallax compensation for the imaging signal for the second viewpoint on the basis of the detected parallax to generate a parallax-compensated color difference signal for the first viewpoint. A fallback determining section and a signal selecting section selects a parallax-compensated second color difference signal or a color difference signal for the first viewpoint to obtain a high-sensitivity captured image while suppressing degradation of the image quality performance.
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