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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 04, 1995
Filed:
May. 10, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
348254 ; 348674 ;
Abstract
An apparatus and method for processing signals of an imaging device comprising a detection circuit for detecting the color temperature of a light source for illuminating an object of which the image is picked up and a circuit for varying .gamma. correction characteristics for chrominance signals, whereby the .gamma. correction characteristics are changed to reduce the gains for low level regions of input signals to .gamma. correction circuits in accordance with the color temperature, thereby enabling the final quantize noise to be reduced.