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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 06, 2019
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yuhi Kondo, Tokyo, JP;
Yasutaka Hirasawa, Tokyo, JP;
Takefumi Nagumo, Kanagawa, JP;
Toshinori Ihara, Tokyo, JP;
Teppei Kurita, Tokyo, JP;
Legong Sun, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A polarization imaging unitacquires a polarized image including polarization pixels with a plurality of polarization directions. An information compression unitsets reference image information based on polarized image information of reference polarization pixels with at least a plurality of polarization directions in the polarized image and generates difference information between the polarized image information of each of polarization pixels different from the reference polarization pixels in the polarized image and the reference image information. In addition, the information compression unitreduces the amount of information of the difference information generated for each of the polarization pixels with the plurality of polarization directions to generate compressed image information including the reference image information and the difference information with the reduced amount of information. An information decoding unitapplies a decoding process corresponding to the compression process of the information compression unitto the compressed image information acquired through a recording mediumor a transmission pathto generate the polarized image and outputs the polarized image to a polarized image using unit