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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:
Sep. 15, 2020

Filed:

Mar. 06, 2018
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Koji Kamiya, Kanagawa, JP;

Yukihiro Kinoshita, Tokyo, JP;

Yasutaka Nakashima, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 7/015 (2006.01); H04N 7/01 (2006.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01); G06T 3/40 (2006.01); G03B 17/18 (2006.01); G03B 13/02 (2006.01); H04N 1/393 (2006.01); H04N 1/387 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/23229 (2013.01); H04N 5/232939 (2018.08); H04N 5/2628 (2013.01); H04N 7/015 (2013.01); H04N 7/0117 (2013.01);
Abstract

This image pickup apparatus includes a VF signal processing unitthat downconverts a first video signal having a 4K resolution to thereby generate an downconverted video signal having an HD resolution, calculates each of pieces of differential data from an average luminance value of luminance values of 2 horizontal×2 vertical pixels of a center portion in a region of 4 horizontal×4 vertical pixels of a first video signal, which correspond to 2 horizontal×2 vertical pixels of the downconverted video signal, calculates an addition value for each pixel of 2 horizontal×2 vertical pixels of the center portion on the basis of each piece of differential data, and individually adds the luminance values of 2 horizontal×2 vertical pixels of the downconverted video signal to thereby generate a second video signal having the HD resolution.


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