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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 20, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 24, 2011
Masami Morimoto, Fuchu, JP;
Masami Morimoto, Fuchu, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a correction parameter creation apparatus includes a histogram creation module and a parameter creation module. The histogram creation module is configured to create a histogram of luminance values in an input image. The parameter creation module is configured to create a parameter indicating an input-output characteristic to correct the input image by equalizing the histogram. Where the histogram creation module is configured to determine whether a target pixel in the input image is a local low-luminance pixel or not, and omit to count a frequency of a luminance value of the target pixel if the target pixel is determined to be the local low-luminance pixel.