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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 14, 2014
Filed:
Nov. 08, 2012
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Kenji Nakamura, Chiba, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/73 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/735 (2013.01);
Abstract
A light source estimation device includes: a light-source-estimation area setting section configured to detect a background in an image and to set a light-source-estimation area on the basis of a result of the background detection; and a light source estimation section configured to estimate a type of a light source when the image is captured on the basis of the light-source-estimation area.