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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 02, 2013
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2008
Hideto Fujita, Yao, JP;
Yukio Mori, Hirakata, JP;
Haruo Hatanaka, Kyoto, JP;
Makoto Yamanaka, Kobe, JP;
Akihiro Maenaka, Kadoma, JP;
Shigeyuki Okada, Ogaki, JP;
Haruhiko Murata, Ibaraki, JP;
Hideto Fujita, Yao, JP;
Yukio Mori, Hirakata, JP;
Haruo Hatanaka, Kyoto, JP;
Makoto Yamanaka, Kobe, JP;
Akihiro Maenaka, Kadoma, JP;
Shigeyuki Okada, Ogaki, JP;
Haruhiko Murata, Ibaraki, JP;
SANYO Electric Co., Ltd., Moriguchi-Shi, JP;
Abstract
An imaging device () includes: an imaging element () which outputs a signal expressing an optical image of an imaging object upon an imaging process; a particular object detection unit () which successively acquires a frame image based on an output signal of the imaging element and detects the position of the particular object contained in the imaging object on the frame image according to the image signal of the frame image; a cut-out unit () which sets in the frame image, a cut-out region smaller than the entire region of the frame image according to the detected position and extracts the image in the cut-out region as a cut-out image; and an image quality compensation unit () which improves the resolution of the cut-out image.