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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2012

Filed:

Sep. 28, 2007
Applicants:

Masafumi Inuiya, Kanagawa, JP;

Yuichi Ohashi, Tokyo, JP;

Mikio Ihama, Kanagawa, JP;

Inventors:

Masafumi Inuiya, Kanagawa, JP;

Yuichi Ohashi, Tokyo, JP;

Mikio Ihama, Kanagawa, JP;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 1/06 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

An image processing apparatus includes a color image data generation sectionthat generates color image data from an image pickup signal of a red component, an image pickup signal of a green component, and an image pickup signal of a blue component which are output from an image pickup device; an infrared image data generation sectionthat generates infrared image data from an image pickup signal of an infrared component output from the image pickup device; and a high-contrast infrared image data generation sectionthat generates high-contrast infrared image data using the color image data and the infrared image data. Contrast of the high-contrast infrared image data is more enhanced than that of the infrared image data.


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