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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.

Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2008

Filed:

May. 16, 2003
Applicant:

Kei Takasugi, Hino, JP;

Inventor:

Kei Takasugi, Hino, JP;

Assignee:

Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 9/47 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A color shift reducing apparatus includes: a color shift area detecting unit for detecting a color shift area on the basis of input image data and image data delayed through a memory; a color shift degree calculating unit for calculating data indicating the degree of color shift on the basis of a color shift detection signal, the input image data, and the image data delayed by one field through the memory; an image data estimating unit for estimating image data on the basis of the color shift detection signal, the input image data, and the image data supplied from the memory; and a color shift reducing unit for forming a color shift reduced image on the basis of the image data supplied from the memory, estimated image data, and the color shift degree data.


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