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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:
Mar. 22, 2022

Filed:

Oct. 24, 2018
Applicant:

Ricoh Company, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Keiichi Kawaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;

Takahiro Asai, Kanagawa, JP;

Kazuhiro Yoshida, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:

RICOH COMPANY, LTD., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/247 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2355 (2013.01); G06T 5/009 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); H04N 5/2258 (2013.01); H04N 5/2356 (2013.01); H04N 5/247 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10144 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20221 (2013.01);
Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes: an image acquisition unit to obtain a plurality of images that have been captured under different exposure conditions; an acceptance unit to receive designation of an area in a first image, the first image being one of the plurality of images; a brightness characteristics acquisition unit to obtain a brightness characteristic value of the designated area in the first image; and a combining unit to: determine a combining condition used for combining the first image and a second image according to the brightness characteristic value, the second image being any one of the plurality of images other than the first image, and combine the first image and the second image based on the combining condition to correct brightness of the designated area for display.


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