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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Oct. 08, 2019

Filed:

Oct. 07, 2016
Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Yoshinao Shimada, Hino, JP;

Assignee:

OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/217 (2011.01); H04N 5/911 (2006.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01); H04N 5/77 (2006.01); H04N 5/361 (2011.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/911 (2013.01); H04N 5/357 (2013.01); H04N 5/361 (2013.01); H04N 5/772 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image pickup apparatus includes a comparison light composition section that composes a comparison light image from image data of a plurality of frames, a number-of-replacement-target-frames calculating section for performing, on the comparison light image, for each of partial regions, at least one of deviation correction for a black level attributable to dark random noise with respect to black level subtraction processing of an OB-value subtracting section and correction for deviation of a pixel value attributable to light random noise by a pixel-gain correcting section, a dark-random-noise-tendency determining section, and a light-random-noise-correction-amount calculating section.


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