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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:
Nov. 26, 2019

Filed:

Nov. 28, 2018
Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Hachioji-shi, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Kosuke Kajimura, Tokyo, JP;

Atsuro Okazawa, Tokyo, JP;

Takeshi Fukutomi, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/349 (2011.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23232 (2013.01); H04N 5/23299 (2018.08); H04N 5/349 (2013.01); H04N 9/04551 (2018.08);
Abstract

An image-processing apparatus includes a computer configured to: detect a positional-displacement amount between low-resolution images including a standard image and at least one reference image that are acquired in a time series; generate a high-resolution combined image by positioning, based on the positional-displacement amount detected, pixel information of the reference image at a standard-image position and by performing combining thereof in a high-resolution image space; evaluate a positioning error caused by a resolution-enhancement magnification used when positioning the reference image in the high-resolution image space when generating the high-resolution combined image; and correct the high-resolution combined image based on the evaluation result, wherein the correcting of the high-resolution combined image combines a high-resolution correction image generated by applying a filter to the high-resolution combined image based on the evaluation result obtained, and the high-resolution combined image in accordance with combining ratios based on the evaluation result.


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