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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2019
Filed:
Nov. 17, 2015
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Masashi Murakita, Chiba, JP;
Assignee:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); A61B 1/04 (2006.01); G02B 23/26 (2006.01); A61B 1/06 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G02B 23/24 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); A61B 1/04 (2013.01); A61B 1/06 (2013.01); G02B 23/2469 (2013.01); G02B 23/26 (2013.01); H04N 5/2256 (2013.01); H04N 5/2353 (2013.01); H04N 2005/2255 (2013.01);
Abstract
[Object] It is desirable to provide a technology capable of further appropriately adjusting the luminance of the endoscopic image. [Solution] Provided is an image processing device including: a peak detection unit configured to detect a first peak and a second peak in sequence from a high luminance side from a number-of-pixel distribution for each luminance of an endoscopic image based on imaging by an image sensor; and an exposure control unit configured to perform exposure control on a basis of a first luminance difference between the first peak and the second peak.