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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 29, 2013
Filed:
Mar. 25, 2013
Applicant:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Minato-ku, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshitaka Egawa, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/228 (2006.01); H04N 9/73 (2006.01); H04N 5/217 (2011.01); H04N 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/335 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
According to one embodiment, a solid-state imaging device includes a pixel unit, a flicker detecting unit, a flicker-level estimating unit, and a flicker correcting unit. The flicker detecting unit detects, based on a magnitude relation of a signal amount in each of lines formed in the pixel unit, presence or absence of a flicker. The flicker-level estimating unit estimates a flicker level in each of the lines of the next frame. The flicker correcting unit corrects, for each of the lines, a flicker that occurs in a signal of an image picked up by the pixel unit.