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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2009
Filed:
Jan. 21, 2005
Applicant:
Rui Yamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Inventor:
Rui Yamada, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/73 (2006.01); H04N 5/222 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image processing method and apparatus performs calculating flash-component image data based on a first image captured without flash emission and a second image captured with flash emission, and generating a finally-adjusted image by using an intensity-adjusted flash-component image generated by executing intensity adjustment on the flash-component image data. The method and apparatus can generate a high quality image in which saturated pixels in a nonlinear transformation image, that is, overexposed highlights are reduced.