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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2012
Hitachi Automotive Systems, Ltd., Hitachinaka-shi, Ibaraki, JP;
Atsushi Ichige, Hitachinaka, JP;
HITACHI AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS, LTD., Hitachinaka-Shi, JP;
Abstract
In order to provide a stereoscopic imaging apparatus that can acquire, in a case in which a brightness different is large, parallax information containing a parallax image in all image capturing frames, provided are an image acquisition unit that acquires a first image and a second image different from the first image in exposure time, a gain and offset correction unitthat corrects brightness of one of the acquired first and second images, a parallax calculation unitthat calculates parallax from one of the images corrected by the brightness correction unit and the other of the images and outputs a parallax image and parallax information, and a combination image generation unitthat combines the acquired first and second images together to generate a combination image and outputs the generated combination image.