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Date of Patent:
Jan. 05, 2016

Filed:

Apr. 29, 2013
Applicant:

Panasonic Corporation, Osaka, JP;

Inventors:

Yuki Kishida, Osaka, JP;

Katsuji Kunisue, Osaka, JP;

Hisako Chiaki, Nara, JP;

Ryoji Asada, Osaka, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/217 (2011.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/353 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2173 (2013.01); H04N 5/23229 (2013.01); H04N 5/357 (2013.01); G06T 5/001 (2013.01); H04N 5/2354 (2013.01); H04N 5/3532 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is an image processor that reduces or eliminates the effects of a flash band regardless of performing a shutter operation or not. An imaging device includes a flash band detector configured to determine whether each image of the consecutive images shown by image signals output from an imager is a flash band image a part of which is affected by a flash, and a flash band compensator configured to, if a first image is determined as the flash band image, generate a third image which is supposed where the third image is fully affected by a flash by using a second image which is not determined as the flash band image, and output the third image instead of the first image.


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