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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:
May. 10, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 23, 2019
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Masatoshi Yokokawa, Tokyo, JP;

Hideyuki Ichihashi, Tokyo, JP;

Yiwen Zhu, Tokyo, JP;

Tomohiro Nishi, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); G06T 7/80 (2017.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2355 (2013.01); G06T 5/009 (2013.01); G06T 7/80 (2017.01); H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); H04N 5/2354 (2013.01); H04N 5/23238 (2013.01); H04N 5/23245 (2013.01); H04N 5/23296 (2013.01);
Abstract

Provided is an image processing device that includes a wide image capturing unit which captures an image of a wide viewing angle, a tele image capturing unit which captures an image of a narrow viewing angle, and an image processing unit which receives an input of the captured images of the respective imaging units and executes signal processing. In a case where a wide conversion lens is attached to the tele image capturing unit, the image processing unit executes any one of a high-sensitivity image generation processing, a HDR image generation processing, or a high-resolution image generation processing based on the captured images of the wide image capturing unit and the tele image capturing unit according to a situation at the time of imaging with a wide conversion lens attachment detection unit which detects whether the wide conversion lens is attached.


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