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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 24, 2020
Filed:
Jul. 01, 2016
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tomoo Mitsunaga, Kanagawa, JP;
Hayato Wakabayashi, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichi Okumura, Tokyo, JP;
Yasunobu Hitomi, Kanagawa, JP;
Daisuke Iso, Tokyo, JP;
Tomonori Masuno, Kanagawa, JP;
Shinichiro Izawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Kyoko Izuha, Kanagawa, JP;
Kouichi Harada, Kanagawa, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus comprising an image sensor that includes an imaging surface in which many pixels are arranged vertically and horizontally, a pixel control unit that controls the image sensor, selects a pixel corresponding to a sampling function among pixels configuring a block by applying the sampling function for each block acquired by partitioning the imaging surface of the image sensor into a plurality of blocks, and outputs a sampling signal based on a pixel value of the selected pixel, and a reduced image generating unit that generates a reduced image on the basis of the sampling signal for each block output from the image sensor.