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Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010

Filed:

Apr. 25, 2005
Applicants:

Tsutomu Usui, Yokohama, JP;

Norihiko Nakano, Fujisawa, JP;

Junji Kamimura, Yokohama, JP;

Inventors:

Tsutomu Usui, Yokohama, JP;

Norihiko Nakano, Fujisawa, JP;

Junji Kamimura, Yokohama, JP;

Assignee:

Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

In an imaging apparatus having two imaging devices, a converter module which synthesizes the two signals of each horizontal line produced from the two imaging devices to thereby convert the two signals into a single composite signal, a line memory which cooperates with the converter module to convert the signals, a line delay module which accumulates the output signals from the converter module, a line memory which cooperates with the line delay module to accumulate the signals, an exposure controller, an auto focus controller, a white balance controller, a color signal processor module, a luminance signal processor module, and an arithmetic processor module for stereo imaging process, the output signals from the plurality of imaging devices are converted to the single composite signal and processed on a one-channel processing basis.


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