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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Apr. 02, 2009
Applicant:
Tatsuo Makii, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tatsuo Makii, Tokyo, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, , JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/262 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); G06T 11/00 (2006.01); G03B 15/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/232 (2013.01); H04N 5/2625 (2013.01); G06T 11/00 (2013.01); G03B 15/08 (2013.01); H04N 5/23245 (2013.01); H04N 5/53232 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit configured to perform an image obtaining operation to obtain a plurality of frames of image data having continuity in time, a storage unit configured to temporarily store each of the plurality of frames of image data obtained by the image obtaining unit during the image obtaining operation, and an arithmetic operation control unit configured to perform an image combination process using the plurality of frames of image data sequentially stored in the storage unit during the image obtaining operation to generate combined-image data, the combined-image data being used as data used for display.