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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 13, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 28, 2013
Applicant:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Tetsuji Nakaseko, Fukuoka, JP;
Assignee:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/357 (2011.01); H04N 5/347 (2011.01); H04N 5/367 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/357 (2013.01); H04N 5/347 (2013.01); H04N 5/367 (2013.01);
Abstract
There is provided an imaging apparatus including a correction section configured to amplify an addition pixel value, which is a value obtained by adding results of photoelectric conversion on a plurality of pixels, according to an amplification factor set based on a number of defective pixels included in the plurality of pixels, and output the amplified addition pixel value as a corrected addition pixel value.