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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 14, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2010
Applicant:
Akihiko Utsugi, Machida, JP;
Inventor:
Akihiko Utsugi, Machida, JP;
Assignee:
Nikon Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/217 (2011.01); G06K 9/40 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
In order to perform a pipeline processing on a noise filtering processing, which uses a multi-resolution noise filtering, with a few line memories, the way to select an area of a reduced image which is used by the extraction of the low-frequency noise component from the reduced image is modified. By extracting the low-frequency noise component from the area being selected by the modified way, it is possible to suppress a volume of image data which needs to be read prior to the noise filtering object pixel.