Panasonic Automotive Systems Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Gou Kaise

Tomohiro Yui

Tetsuya Makita

Tomokazu Deki

Yasuyuki Goda

Nobuhiro Takagi

An imaging device includes a calculator, a white balance corrector, and a white balance corrector. The calculator calculates a white balance gain and an inverse gain on the basis of a first image. The white balance gain is used for correcting white balance. The inverse gain is a reciprocal number of the white balance gain. The white balance corrector corrects white balance of a captured image on the basis of the white balance gain. The white balance corrector generates a first image and outputs the generated first image to the calculator. The first image is generated by performing inverse gain correction in which the captured image whose white balance has been corrected is multiplied by the inverse gain.

Imaging device, imaging method, recording medium, and mobile body

A vehicular camera is configured to image at least part of surroundings of a vehicle body irradiated by a near-infrared light source attached to the vehicle body, and output a first video imaged. The vehicular camera includes: an illuminance sensor is configured to detect an illuminance of the least part of the surroundings of the vehicle body; and an output circuit configured to output a second video in which at least part of the first video is subjected to a first correction processing, when the near-infrared light source has a first light emission intensity, and output a third video in which at least part of the first video is subjected to a second correction processing different from the first correction processing, when the near-infrared light source has a second light emission intensity larger than the first light emission intensity and the illuminance is smaller than a predetermined value.

Vehicular camera, and video output method

A dynamic DC offset removal apparatus and a dynamic DC offset removal method capable of accurately estimating a change position of a dynamic DC offset and a DC offset value before the change and a DC offset value after the change, thereby carrying out equalization processing on a reception signal whose dynamic DC offsets are removed, and improving a bit error rate characteristic. In receiverhaving a dynamic DC offset removal apparatus, dynamic DC offset detection sectioncalculates a DC offset value before the change and a DC offset value after the change, and DC offset change timing from the maximum value and minimum value calculated at maximum value search sectionand minimum value search sectionand the first-half mean value, second-half mean value and overall mean value calculated at first-half mean value calculation section, second-half mean value calculation sectionand overall mean value calculation section, and compensation DC offset switching sectionof DC offset removal sectionswitches between the DC offset value before the change and DC offset value after the change based on the DC offset change timing and removes dynamic DC offsets from the reception signal.

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Kanagawa, Japan

Gou Kaise