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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 10, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 24, 2009
Applicant:
Akiharu Ito, Saitama, JP;
Inventor:
Akiharu Ito, Saitama, JP;
Assignee:
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/64 (2006.01); H04N 9/73 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An imaging apparatus includes a smear detection unit configured to detect the amount of smear from an image signal, a smear correction unit configured to execute smear correction based on the detected amount of smear, and an image processing unit configured to execute image processing based on the detected amount of smear.