Olympus Corporation

Olympus Optical Company, Ltd.

Olympus Imaging Corporation

Takeyuki Ajito

Yasuhiro Komiya

Toru Wada

Tomoyuki Nakamura

Osamu Konno

Nagaaki Ohyama

Masahiro Yamaguchi

Kenro Ohsawa

Masaya Katsumata

Shuta Yanagita

Kensuke Ishii

Takuya Matsunaga

Tatsuya Kino

An image capturing apparatus includes: a ghost detection unit that detects a ghost generated in a signal obtained from an image capturing element; a correction-target-pixel setting unit that sets, as a correction-target pixel, an image pixel affected by crosstalk of the ghost from among image pixels adjacent to a focus-detection pixel; and a pixel correction unit that corrects the correction-target pixel according to a correction value calculated from an image pixel located in the vicinity of the correction-target pixel.

Image capturing apparatus

An image pickup system includes an interchangeable lens and an image pickup apparatus body, the interchangeable lens including a lens characteristic data storage portion, and a communication portion, the image pickup apparatus body including a solid-state image pickup device configured to output first image data, an image processing portion configured to perform distortion aberration correction processing on the first image data, and output second image data, and a correction coefficient calculation portion configured to compare information on an image height of the second image data with the information on the image height range supporting the read-out distortion aberration characteristic information and, if the image height of the second image data falls within the range, calculate a distortion aberration correction coefficient on the basis of corresponding distortion aberration characteristic. The image processing portion performs the distortion aberration correction processing using the calculated distortion aberration correction coefficient.

Image pickup system, image pickup apparatus, and interchangeable lens

An image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup device that includes pixels in a predetermined color array and is configured to be able to acquire a plurality of color array images corresponding to the color array through pixel shift; a chromatic aberration correction processing section configured to receive the plurality of color array images and to perform chromatic aberration correction processing on each of the plurality of color array images; a pixel shift composition processing section configured to perform pixel shift composition processing on the plurality of color array images that are subjected to the chromatic aberration correction processing by the chromatic aberration correction processing section, to acquire a pixel shift high-resolution image; and a demosaicking processing section configured to perform demosaicking processing on the pixel shift high-resolution image.

Image pickup apparatus, image pickup method, and recording medium having recorded image pickup program

An image pickup apparatus a includes a VCM configured to move relative positions of an image sensor and a light beam such that a movement amount of a frame period is a non-integer multiple of a pixel pitch, a microcomputer configured to cause the image sensor to perform exposures a plurality of times during the movement of the relative positions and acquire a plurality of image data, and a combination processing section configured to generate high-resolution combined image data from the acquired plurality of image data. The VCM sets the movement of the relative positions during the exposures in a same moving direction and a same movement amount in each of the exposures of the plurality of times.

Image pickup apparatus, image pickup method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer program

An imaging device performs live view control in which control of imaging a subject image formed by a focusing lens so as to output image data, generating tilt-distortion correction image data in accordance with the tilt-distortion correction level on the basis of the image data, and displaying a tilt-distortion correction image represented by the tilt-distortion correction image data is performed repeatedly, and performs focus bracket control in which control of moving the focusing lens to each of a plurality of lens positions determined on the basis of the tilt-distortion correction level and imaging a subject image formed by the focusing lens so as to output image data when the focusing lens has moved to each of the plurality of lens positions is performed.

Imaging device, control method and recording medium having stored program

An image pickup apparatus includes a processor configured of hardware functioning as a pixel-shift-combination processing section configured to perform pixel shift combination of a plurality of image data acquired by performing pixel shift photographing in a certain focus position to generate combined image data, a depth-combination processing section configured to perform depth combination of a plurality of combined image data in different focus positions that the depth-combination processing section causes the pixel-shift-combination processing section to generate, and a microcomputer configured to extract a focused region in at least one or more of the plurality of focus positions. The pixel-shift-combination processing section performs, concerning a focus position where the focused region is extracted, the pixel shift combination concerning only a partial image region including the focused region.

An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device including a plurality of pixels arrayed at a predetermined pixel pitch, a shift mechanism configured to perform a pixel shift in a movement amount which is a non-integral multiple of the pixel pitch, a microcomputer configured to cause the image pickup device to pick up an image at pixel shifting positions to respectively acquire a plurality of pieces of image data, a synthesis processing section configured to synthesize the acquired plurality of pieces of image data to generate composite image data with a high resolution, and an image processing section configured to determine an edge enhancement parameter based on a characteristic relating to a pixel opening of the composite image data and perform edge enhancement processing for the composite image data.

Image pickup apparatus and image processing method

An imaging apparatus includes an optical system, a data storage unit, an imaging unit, and an image processing unit. The optical system is variable in focal distance and varies a size of an image circle by the focal distance. A data storage unit stores data indicating a correspondence between a value of the focal distance and a value of the size of the image circle. The imaging unit obtains image data from the optical image. The image processing unit performs composition processing of image data in multiple frames after dividing each of the image data in multiple frames corresponding to an outside of the image circle into quadrant-by-quadrant regions and aligning the divided image data in multiple frames quadrant by quadrant.

Imaging apparatus, imaging system, and image processing method

An imaging apparatus includes an imaging element, a correction value calculating unit, and a correction unit. The imaging element images an object through a photographing lens to generate an image signal. The correction value calculating unit calculates correction values for a plurality of frequency components of the image signal, the correction values corresponding to an aperture value acquired when the object is imaged through the photographing lens. The correction unit corrects frequency characteristics of the plurality of frequency components in accordance with the correction values calculated.

Image apparatus and imaging method

A first WB correction coefficient for modifying a tint of an image captured in an auxiliary light non-emission condition to a tint of a peripheral light of the auxiliary light non-emission condition is set by a first WB correction coefficient setting unit, and a second WB correction coefficient for modifying the tint of an image captured in an auxiliary light emission condition to the tint of the auxiliary light non-emission condition is set by a second WB correction coefficient setting unit. The tint of the image captured in the auxiliary light emission condition is then modified to the tint of the auxiliary light non-emission condition by an image processing unit on the basis of the first WB correction coefficient and the second WB correction coefficient.

Image pickup device, image processing method, and storage medium

An image processing device that corrects an obtained image includes: an image acquisition unit that obtains the image; a region setting unit that sets a first region including a main object and a second region not including the main object on the image; an image characteristic amount calculation unit that calculates a first image characteristic amount, which is an occurrence state of a predetermined image characteristic amount, respectively in the first region and the second region; a comparison unit that compares the first image characteristic amounts of the first region and the second region; and an image characteristic adjustment unit that adjusts a second image characteristic amount of the obtained image on the basis of a comparison result obtained by the comparison unit.

Image processing device, storage medium, and image processing method for correcting an image

An image pickup apparatus generates a display image signal by implementing predetermined dynamic range expansion processing on an image signal obtained by performing underexposed image pickup, and detects an image region in which a pixel within a predetermined gradation range exists as a warning region from the image signal either prior to implementation of the predetermined dynamic range expansion processing or following implementation of the predetermined dynamic range expansion processing. The image pickup apparatus synthesizes the display image signal with a warning pattern corresponding to the warning region and displays the synthesized image as a live view image.

Image pickup apparatus having warning region detection related to dynamic range expansion

An image processing device that corrects an obtained image includes: an image acquisition unit that obtains the image; a region setting unit that sets a first region including a main object and a second region not including the main object on the image; an image characteristic amount calculation unit that calculates a first image characteristic amount respectively in the first region and the second region; a comparison unit that compares the first image characteristic amounts of the first region and the second region; an image processing method setting unit that sets an image processing method to be applied to the image, from a plurality of image processing methods, on the basis of a comparison result obtained by the comparison unit; and an image characteristic adjustment unit that adjusts a second image characteristic amount of the obtained image using the method set by the image processing method setting unit.

Image processing device, storage medium, and image processing method that corrects saturation, specific color and spatial frequency of an obtained image

A white balance adjustment apparatus which is input image data acquired by an imager element to adjust a balance among color signals of the image data of a present frame includes an evaluation acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of groups of color signal data at each pixel position, as evaluation values, from the image data of the present frame and image data of at least one previous frame which is acquired before the present frame. The evaluation value acquisition unit includes an overlap area detection unit configured to detect image areas overlapping with each other between the image data of the at least one previous frame and the image data of the present frame. The evaluation values to be acquired from the image data of the at least one previous frame are selectively acquired in response to a detection result from the overlap area detection unit.

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Takeyuki Ajito