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Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2011

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2005
Applicants:

Takahiro Nagano, Kanagawa, JP;

Tetsujiro Kondo, Tokyo, JP;

Tsutomu Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;

Junichi Ishibashi, Saitama, JP;

Hisakazu Shiraki, Kanagawa, JP;

Naoki Fujiwara, Tokyo, JP;

Masanori Kanemaru, Kanagawa, JP;

Shinichiro Kaneko, Tokyo, JP;

Yasuhiro Suto, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Takahiro Nagano, Kanagawa, JP;

Tetsujiro Kondo, Tokyo, JP;

Tsutomu Watanabe, Kanagawa, JP;

Junichi Ishibashi, Saitama, JP;

Hisakazu Shiraki, Kanagawa, JP;

Naoki Fujiwara, Tokyo, JP;

Masanori Kanemaru, Kanagawa, JP;

Shinichiro Kaneko, Tokyo, JP;

Yasuhiro Suto, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01); H04N 11/04 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A target-pixel-setting section () sets a target pixel in a target image to be predicted. A motion-direction-detecting section () detects a motion direction corresponding to the target pixel. A pixel-value-extracting section () extracts from peripheral images corresponding to the target image, in order to extract a main term that mainly contains component of the target pixel in a moving object that encounters a motion blur in the peripheral images, at least pixel values of pixels in the peripheral images whose space position roughly agree with space position of the target pixel. A processing-coefficient-setting section () sets a specific motion-blur-removing-processing coefficient. A pixel-value-generating section () newly generates pixel values for processing from the pixel values extracted by the pixel-value-extracting section () corresponding to the motion direction and generates pixel values corresponding to the target pixel based on the pixel values for processing and the specific motion-blur-removing-processing coefficients. It is possible to perform a robust motion-blur-removing processing on any shifts of motion vector.


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