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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2022
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2018
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Shuichi Goto, Tokyo, JP;
Keisuke Ito, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
To suppress a sense of strangeness caused by mode transition when images obtained from a plurality of image capturing devices are fused. According to the present disclosure, it is provided an image processing apparatus including: a fusion processing unit that fuses a plurality of pieces of image information obtained from each of a plurality of image capturing devices that captures the same subject; and a fusion mode determination unit that determines a mode of the fusion in accordance with the value of a predetermined variable and sets, in accordance with each of a plurality of the modes, the threshold value of the variable for determining the mode.