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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 06, 2010
Filed:
Aug. 16, 2007
Katsuhide Ito, Hamamatsu, JP;
Takayuki Kawashima, Hamamatsu, JP;
Katsuhide Ito, Hamamatsu, JP;
Takayuki Kawashima, Hamamatsu, JP;
Hamamatsu Photonics K.K., Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes an image pickup device having a two-dimensionally arrayed pixel structure, an A/D converter which converts analog signals from the respective pixels into digital data signals, and a DSPwhich performs signal processing for the data signals. The DSPincludes an image data storagewhich stores the data signals in units of data signal sequences corresponding to pixel lines, a mask processorwhich sets an integer n not less than 2 as a dilation coefficient and performs mask processing to dilate image components in the image data to n×n, and a data storing controllerwhich sets n calculation memory regions in which n data signal sequences corresponding to n pixel lines are stored, in the storage, according to the dilation coefficient n. Thereby, an imaging apparatus capable of acquiring an image with excellent visibility even under conditions of a low illuminance, etc., is realized.