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Date of Patent:
Jul. 03, 2012

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2005
Applicants:

Takahiro Nagano, Minato-ku, JP;

Tetsujiro Kondo, Minato-ku, JP;

Tsutomu Watanabe, Minato-ku, JP;

Junichi Ishibashi, Minato-ku, JP;

Hisakazu Shiraki, Minato-ku, JP;

Naoki Fujiwara, Minato-ku, JP;

Masanori Kanemaru, Minato-ku, JP;

Shinichiro Kaneko, Minato-ku, JP;

Yasuhiro Suto, Minato-ku, JP;

Inventors:

Takahiro Nagano, Minato-ku, JP;

Tetsujiro Kondo, Minato-ku, JP;

Tsutomu Watanabe, Minato-ku, JP;

Junichi Ishibashi, Minato-ku, JP;

Hisakazu Shiraki, Minato-ku, JP;

Naoki Fujiwara, Minato-ku, JP;

Masanori Kanemaru, Minato-ku, JP;

Shinichiro Kaneko, Minato-ku, JP;

Yasuhiro Suto, Minato-ku, JP;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 7/26 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G06K 9/62 (2006.01); H04N 5/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A motion-vector-setting section () sets a motion vector in units of pixel in a target image. Based on the motion vector, a target-pixel-setting section () sets a target pixel for each image in plural images to be processed. A motion-blur-amount-setting section () sets a motion blur amount in units of pixel based on the motion vector and the exposure-time ratio set in units of image in the exposure-time-ratio-setting section (). A processing-region-setting section () sets processing regions corresponding to the target pixel for each of the plural images based on the motion blur amount. A processing-coefficient-setting section () sets processing coefficients based on the motion blur amount. A pixel-value-generating section () generates motion-blur-removed pixel values that correspond to the target pixel by linear combination of pixel values corresponding to pixels in the processing region and the processing coefficients, so that they can be output from an integration section () as one pixel value. By utilizing any time-directional information significantly, motion-blur-removing processing can be accurately performed.


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