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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 13, 2019
Filed:
Jul. 27, 2016
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Norihito Hiasa, Utsunomiya, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes an image acquirer configured to acquire a first image that is generated by image capturing and includes information of light intensity distributions obtained with a plurality of different exposures provided with transmittance distributions that are different from one another, an information acquirer configured to acquire information on the transmittance distributions, and an image estimator configured to separate image signals corresponding to two or more exposures among the plurality of exposures from the first image in the same pixel based on an estimation using the information on the transmittance distributions, and to generate two or more second images using the separated image signals.