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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 17, 2015
Filed:
Jul. 09, 2013
Applicant:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Takeshi Fukutomi, Hachioji, JP;
Assignee:
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/202 (2006.01); H04N 5/243 (2006.01); H04N 1/407 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/243 (2013.01); H04N 1/407 (2013.01); G06T 5/007 (2013.01); H04N 5/2355 (2013.01);
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes: a gray-scale conversion characteristic deriving unit configured to set reference image data out of a plurality of input image data obtained by shooting an identical object with a different amount of exposure and derive a gray-scale conversion characteristic from the reference image data; and an image synthesis processing unit configured to derive a new pixel value for each pixel using a pixel value of one or more input image data selected from a plurality of the input image data based on the gray-scale conversion characteristic to create synthesized image data.