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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 17, 2022
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2020
Applicant:
Sony Olympus Medical Solutions Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Toshiyuki Sasaki, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
SONY OLYMPUS MEDICAL SOLUTIONS INC., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/18 (2006.01); H04N 5/243 (2006.01); G02B 21/36 (2006.01); G02B 21/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/243 (2013.01); G02B 21/0012 (2013.01); G02B 21/365 (2013.01); H04N 5/2351 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to: set a luminance adjustment mode to one of a first luminance adjustment mode that performs luminance adjustment with preset sensitivity and a second luminance adjustment mode that has sensitivity of the luminance adjustment lower than the sensitivity of the first luminance adjustment mode and suppresses luminance of a high luminance region based on an observation state of an imager configured to capture a target; and perform the luminance adjustment in the set luminance adjustment mode.