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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 06, 2018
Filed:
May. 04, 2018
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Takeyuki Ajito, Hachioji, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
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.