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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 26, 2008
Applicant:
Takao Tsuruoka, Machida, JP;
Inventor:
Takao Tsuruoka, Machida, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/217 (2006.01); H04N 5/208 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An image pickup system for processing a signal from a CCD includes a noise reducing unit for performing a noise reduction processing on the signal from the CCD, an edge direction detection unit for detecting an edge direction from the signal having been subjected to the noise reduction processing, and an edge extraction unit for extracting an edge component from the signal from the CCD on the basis of the edge direction.