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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 09, 2003
Filed:
Nov. 26, 1997
Sinji Harada, Sakai, JP;
Takahiro Mouri, Sakai, JP;
Masumi Shoji, Osaka, JP;
Iwao Adachi, Moriguchi, JP;
Minolta Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
Abstract
The image acquisition device of the present invention includes an image forming lens to form a condensed image, a CCD to convert a condensed image to electric signals, and flag table memory to store predetermined correction flags, which indicate whether or not to cull a pixel so as to correct distortion caused by the image forming lens. The image acquisition device further includes a distortion correction circuit to execute the culling of pixels included in image signals in accordance with a correction flag for each pixel. The image acquisition device removes the distortion component contained in the image signal in real time.