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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 27, 2012
Filed:
May. 25, 2009
Masaru Takamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuya Hashimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Masaru Takamoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Tetsuya Hashimoto, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present invention is to provide a characteristic value generating circuit and an imaging device that can generate anticipated variation in the performance of an imaging device due to the individual difference and can easily evaluate the result of correction processing for the variation. A variation generating circuithas a command receiverthat acquires characteristic value data S, a characteristic value generatorthat refers to the characteristic value data Sand generates a characteristic value of a limit of correction possibility for input image data S, and an adderthat adds a characteristic limit value Sgenerated by the characteristic value generatorand the input image data S
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