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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 20, 2017
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Shinya Takasumi, Akiruno, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 5/007 (2013.01); G06T 7/90 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a smoothing section configured to smooth, for an image after gradation conversion with which gradation display on a monitor becomes appropriate, a signal with a higher Weber ratio, to a signal value, of a quantization error caused by the gradation conversion with higher strength, and a random component addition section configured to add a larger random component to the signal with the higher Weber ratio excluding a neighborhood of a minimum signal value for an image after the smoothing.