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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 31, 2007
Yuko Hattori, Yokohama, JP;
Tsutomu Nishizawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Yuko Hattori, Yokohama, JP;
Tsutomu Nishizawa, Kawasaki, JP;
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus, a computer readable medium and the like in which a dither effect in a neighborhood of a highlight area can be obtained easily and certainly. For this purpose, an image processing apparatus includes an inputting unit which inputs a pixel signal group representing a field image, an averaging unit (-and-) which performs a processing having an averaging effect among the pixel signal group input by the inputting unit, and an irregularizing unit (-) which irregularizes mutually continuous signal-values at least near a saturated level among the pixel signal group after having been processed by the averaging unit, into discontinuous signal-values.