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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 15, 2011
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2006
Hideya Aragaki, Hino, JP;
Hideya Aragaki, Hino, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image-acquisition apparatus is provided, including a correction-coefficient calculating unitfor obtaining an image signal subjected to prescribed image processing and creating, in each region, a first correction-coefficient group formed of a plurality of correction coefficients corresponding to a plurality of pixels; a correction-coefficient-group adjusting unitfor creating a second correction-coefficient group by adjusting the first correction-coefficient group using the image signal from an image-acquisition device or a feature of the image signal subjected to the image processing; and a grayscale converterfor performing grayscale conversion processing in each region using the second correction-coefficient group.