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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2012
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An imaging apparatus and an evaluation value generation apparatus can include an image data interface unit that outputs image data according to a pixel signal input from a solid-state imaging device as first image data, an image data reading unit that reads image data stored in a storage unit and outputs the read image data as second image data, an evaluation value generation unit that generates an evaluation value based on input image data, an image data selection unit that selects one of image data based on the first image data and image data based on the second image data as image data to be input to the evaluation value generation unit, and an image data writing unit that stores the image data based on the first image data in the storage unit.