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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Apr. 30, 2008
Makoto Oishi, Miyagi, JP;
Makoto Oishi, Miyagi, JP;
FUJIFILM Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A signal processing apparatus including: a first noise reduction processing section that performs first noise reduction processing on an image, in which each of multitudes of pixels has one of a plurality of color components and the color components are distributed regularly, based only on pixel arrangement to obtain a first processed image; a color component separation section that separates the first processed image into each of the color components to obtain a plurality of color component images; and a signal classification section that compares a signal value of a target pixel for processing with a signal value of each pixel included in a predetermined range of area around the target pixel and classifies each pixel within the predetermined range of area into one of a plurality of groups based on the comparison result.