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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:
Nov. 25, 2008

Filed:

Apr. 02, 2003
Applicants:

Atsushi Kohashi, Akiruno, JP;

Keiichi Mori, Hachioji, JP;

Inventors:

Atsushi Kohashi, Akiruno, JP;

Keiichi Mori, Hachioji, JP;

Assignee:

Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/68 (2006.01); H04N 5/202 (2006.01); H04N 9/69 (2006.01); G03F 3/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

Briefly, a camera according to the present invention includes a first signal processing system having a first gamma conversion processing unit for subjecting an output from an image pick-up device to gamma conversion processing and a luminance signal generating unit for generating a luminance-system signal based on an output from the first gamma conversion processing unit, and a second signal processing system having a color signal generating unit for generating a color-system signal based on an output which is the output from the image pick-up device and which is not subjected to the gamma conversion processing.


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