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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 25, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2013
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Yoshihiko Kuroki, Kanagawa, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01); H04N 3/14 (2006.01); H04N 5/347 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 3/1568 (2013.01); H04N 5/357 (2013.01); H04N 5/347 (2013.01);
Abstract
Provided is an image processing apparatus including a binning unit configured to calculate, based on, as a binning area, an area including two or more adjacent pixels in a unit area including m pixels in a lateral direction and n pixels in a perpendicular direction on an image sensor, a sum of output values of the pixels in the binning area as an addition output value for each of m×n binning areas that are different to each other; and a calculation unit configured to calculate a pixel value of each pixel in the binning area based on m×n addition output values obtained for the unit area.