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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2010
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2006
Takuya Chiba, Tokyo, JP;
Yutaka Yoneda, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Matsui, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaya Kinoshita, Kanagawa, JP;
Takuya Chiba, Tokyo, JP;
Yutaka Yoneda, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Matsui, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaya Kinoshita, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus for imaging an image using a solid-state image pickup device includes a first linear matrix operation unit configured to perform matrix conversion upon a color component of an image signal obtained by imaging using coefficients capable of improving color reproducibility; a second linear matrix operation unit configured to perform matrix conversion upon the color component using coefficients capable of achieving noise component reduction; a signal combining unit configured to combine image signals output from a plurality of signal processing systems each of which includes one of the first or second linear matrix operation units; and a combination ratio setting unit configured to set a combination ratio so that, when a subject is bright, an image signal output from the signal processing system that includes the first linear matrix operation unit can be combined in an amount larger than the image signals output from the other signal processing systems.