Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd.

Panasonic Corporation

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Tomoaki Tsutsumi

Kyosuke Osuka

Yasutoshi Yamamoto

Takaaki Yamasaki

Daisuke Baba

Hiroya Kusaka

Shigeo Sakaue

Takeshi Hamasaki

Masaaki Nakayama

Yuichi Suzuki

Yukihiro Tanizoe

Shinji Furuya

Eiji Anno

An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor generating original image data; an image processor performing image processing to generate image data; a storage storing a plurality of first parameter sets and at least one second parameter set; and a user interface receiving a user operation combining a first parameter set with a second parameter set. Each of the plurality of first parameter sets defines the effect in the image processing. Each of the at least one second parameter set defines a correspondence before and after color information in an image is converted. Based on the user operation, the image processor: adjusts an image indicated by the original image data, using the first parameter set included in the combination designated by the user operation; and converts color information included in the image adjusted by the first parameter set, using the second parameter set included in the designated combination.

Imaging apparatus

An imaging apparatus includes an imaging part to capture a subject so as to generate image data, an image processor to generate first image data having a first dynamic range relating to brightness based on the image data, a display being not compatible with reproduction of the image having the first dynamic range but being compatible with reproduction of an image having a second dynamic range narrower than the first dynamic range, and a controller to control a display of an image indicated by the first image data. The controller has a first mode in which when the first image data is displayed on the display, the controller converts a color gamut of the first image data to a color gamut with which the display is compatible without converting a gamma characteristic of the first image data.

Imaging apparatus including controller for converting dynamic range image data

An image capture device according to the present invention includes: an optical system for producing a subject's image; an imager with multiple photodiodes, which reads an electrical signal representing the intensity of light that has been incident on each photodiode from the photodiode, thereby generating an image signal representing the subject's image; a controller, which acquires sensitivity information by photometry in order to adjust the sensitivity of the imager to light and which selects one of multiple methods for reading the electrical signal from each photodiode according to the sensitivity information acquired; and a driver for driving the imager by the reading method selected. The multiple reading methods include a mixing reading method, by which the electrical signals supplied from the photodiodes are added together and then output.

Image capture device which selects reading method based on sensitivity information

An inter-line CCD(IT-CCD) capable of reading signals in two read modes, a field read mode and a frame read mode, is used to control, by a system control means, a CCD exposure and a signal read mode, a short-time exposure signal(Short signal) acquires an image by a field read and a long-time exposure signal(Long signal) acquires an image by a frame read, and these two images are synthesized by a signal synthesizing means to expand a dynamic range.

Solid-state imaging device for enlargement of dynamic range

An imaging system includes an imaging device which outputs a plurality of digital signals each of which indicating an amount of light irradiating on a corresponding one of a plurality of pixels arranged in two dimensions, a pre-processor which reduces an amount of data of the plurality of the digital signals output by the imaging device, a processor which processes digital signals, a memory which stores the digital signals, and a memory controller which stores the plurality of the digital signals output by the pre-processor in the memory and reads the plurality of the digital signals from the memory to output the plurality of the digital signals to the processor.

Imaging system

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Tomoaki Tsutsumi