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Patent No.:

US 10455149 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2019

Filed:

Jan. 16, 2018

Image processing apparatus, image processing apparatus control method, image pickup apparatus, and image pickup apparatus control method

Applicant:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Inventor:

Fumitaka Nakayama, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:

Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:

Cowan, Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.

Primary Examiner:

Twyler L Haskins

Assistant Examiner:

Dwight Alex C Tejano

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 13/128 (2018.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01); G06T 7/571 (2017.01); H04N 5/369 (2011.01); H04N 13/00 (2018.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23229 (2013.01); G06T 7/571 (2017.01); H04N 5/23212 (2013.01); H04N 5/2621 (2013.01); H04N 13/128 (2018.05); G06T 2207/10148 (2013.01); H04N 5/3696 (2013.01); H04N 2013/0092 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image processing apparatus including an acquiring unit configured to acquire an image signal of a plurality of images obtained by picking up an object image that is formed by a photographing optical system; a determining unit configured to determine a defocus amount of the object image by using the image signal of the plurality of images; and a conversion unit configured to perform, on the defocus amount, gradation conversion that has at least one conversion characteristic out of a plurality of different conversion characteristics, and to output information that is based on the defocus amount converted by the gradation conversion.

Find Patent Forward Citations

Nakayama, Fumitaka. (2019). Image processing apparatus, image processing apparatus control method, image pickup apparatus, and image pickup apparatus control method (U.S. Patent No. 10455149). U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. https://idiyas.com/patent/badge/10455149

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