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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 19, 2016
Filed:
Nov. 13, 2012
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Keita Kaifu, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Matsui, Kanagawa, JP;
Noriko Chino, Kanagawa, JP;
Kiyotaka Nakabayashi, Saitama, JP;
Tomoya Myojin, Kanagawa, JP;
Junya Suzuki, Tokyo, JP;
Manli Yuan, Tokyo, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image pickup apparatus includes: a dimming device configured to adjust light quantity of incident image pickup light; an image pickup device configured to obtain an image pickup signal based on image pickup light emitted from the dimming device; and a color correction processing section configured to perform color correction on the image pickup signal that is obtained by the image pickup device, based on information relating to light quantity of the image pickup light emitted from the dimming device. The color correction processing section performs the color correction to allow a color balance value of the image pickup signal to be substantially constant independent of the light quantity of the image pickup light emitted from the dimming device.