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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:
Aug. 24, 2021

Filed:

Jul. 01, 2019
Applicant:

Olympus Corporation, Hachioji, JP;

Inventor:

Kenichi Onomura, Hino, JP;

Assignee:

Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/341 (2011.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/341 (2013.01); H04N 5/232 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01);
Abstract

An imaging apparatus includes a solid-state image sensor with Bayer array structure. The imaging apparatus includes a calculation circuit, an interpolation operating circuit, and a G-step detecting circuit. The calculation circuit calculates a first value and a second value, for each predetermined image area of image data output from the solid-state image sensor. The first value is a mean value or integrated value of pixel values of first green pixels. The second value is a mean value or integrated value of pixel values of second green pixels. The interpolation operating circuit performs, for a plurality of the image areas, an interpolation operation by using a plurality of the first values and a plurality of the second values.


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