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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 12, 2013
Filed:
Jul. 28, 2009
Hideya Aragaki, Hino, JP;
Takahiro Saito, Yokohama, JP;
Hideya Aragaki, Hino, JP;
Takahiro Saito, Yokohama, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Kanagawa University, Yokohama-shi, JP;
Abstract
Provided is a component extraction/correction device, comprising: a decomposition unit that decomposes an original image signal into a plurality of frequency bands to generate a plurality of band signals; an extraction unit that extracts a skeleton component from among a plurality of components constituting the band signal; a first correction unit that corrects the extracted skeleton component by using the band signal and one component other than the skeleton component among the plurality of components; and a second correction unit that corrects the one component by using the corrected skeleton component and the band signal.