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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 25, 2011
Gen Horie, Hachioji, JP;
Gen Horie, Hachioji, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image capturing element of an image capturing sectionhas a color filter with a Bayer matrix, and interpolation unitimplements an interpolation process to an image signal for each pixel received from the image capturing element by using image signals of adjacent pixels to obtain an image signal of R, G and B for the respective pixels. High-frequency component extracting unitextracts a high frequency component from the G signal; false-color reduced color signal generation unitobtains, for the respective pixels, a false-color reduced color signal (R+B−G) in which an effect of a false color is reduced; and, chroma signal generation unitgenerates a chroma signal, which is an absolute value of the false-color reduced color signal. Suppression unitsuppresses the false color on the basis of the high frequency component extracted by the high-frequency component extracting unitand the chroma signal for the respective pixels generated by the chroma signal generation unit