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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2016
Filed:
May. 30, 2013
Applicants:
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Takahiro Fukuhara, Tokyo, JP;
Hitoshi Kiya, Tokyo, JP;
Assignees:
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
TOKYO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY, Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06K 9/46 (2006.01); G06T 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 19/34 (2014.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 9/00 (2013.01); H04N 19/34 (2014.11);
Abstract
There is provided an image processing apparatus including a tone mapper that losslessly tone maps image data in a floating-point representation, a base layer generator that generates base layer image data by reducing a bit depth of the image data tone mapped by the tone mapper, and an enhancement layer generator that generates enhancement layer data by using the image data tone mapped by the tone mapper and the base layer image data generated by the base layer generator.