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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2011
Filed:
Feb. 23, 2007
Fumiaki Kato, Chiba, JP;
Ken Nakajima, Tokyo, JP;
Fumiaki Kato, Chiba, JP;
Ken Nakajima, Tokyo, JP;
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Abstract
An image capturing apparatus for capturing an image with solid state imaging devices may include a compressing section, a memory, a decompressing section, and a signal processing section. The compressing section may compress digitalized data of an image captured with the solid state imaging devices. The memory may temporarily store the compressed image data that is compressed by the compressing section. The decompressing section may decompress the compressed image data that is read out from the memory. The signal processing section may perform an image quality correction operation on the image data decompressed by the decompressing section. The compressed image data may contain a maximum value and a minimum value of pixel data in a block, information regarding positions of the maximum value and the minimum value in the block, and quantized data.