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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2015
Filed:
Nov. 15, 2013
Canon Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroki Ebe, Utsunomiya, JP;
CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA, , JP;
Abstract
The image processing method includes acquiring an input image produced by an image pickup system including at least one imaging optical system and causing light rays from a same point in an object space to respectively enter different image pickup pixels depending on light ray passing areas of a pupil through which the respective light rays pass, performing a shaping process including at least one of an image restoration process to restore a degraded image and a luminance estimation process to estimate a luminance of a saturated area, a reconstruction process to reconstruct a new image different from the input image, and performing a blur addition process to add an image blur component to an addition target image. The method performs the shaping process before the reconstruction process and the blur addition process.