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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2018
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
On the basis of a first imaging signal corresponding to a first viewpoint and including white pixels and color component pixels and a second imaging signal corresponding to a second viewpoint different from the first viewpoint and including fewer white pixels than the first imaging signal to increase a rate of the color component pixels in the second imaging signal, a parallax detecting section detects a parallax of the second viewpoint with respect to the first viewpoint. A parallax compensating section performs parallax compensation for the imaging signal for the second viewpoint on the basis of the detected parallax to generate a parallax-compensated color difference signal for the first viewpoint. A fallback determining section and a signal selecting section selects a parallax-compensated second color difference signal or a color difference signal for the first viewpoint to obtain a high-sensitivity captured image while suppressing degradation of the image quality performance.