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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 19, 2015
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Yohei Myoga, Tokyo, JP;
Kenichi Nishio, Kanagawa, JP;
Akira Matsui, Kanagawa, JP;
Ting Zhang, Tokyo, JP;
Yuko Shibaike, Saitama, JP;
SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes a direction detection unit configured to detect a direction of a picture pattern of each picture in an input image having a predetermined color pixel array; a moire detection unit configured to detect a moire level by periodicity of a pixel value of each pixel in the input image depending on the direction as a moire index value; and a moire suppression unit configured to suppress the moire level in the input image based on the moire index value detected by the moire detection unit. A method thereof and a program therefor are also provided.