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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016

Filed:

Feb. 19, 2015
Applicant:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yohei Myoga, Tokyo, JP;

Kenichi Nishio, Kanagawa, JP;

Akira Matsui, Kanagawa, JP;

Ting Zhang, Tokyo, JP;

Yuko Shibaike, Saitama, JP;

Assignee:

SONY CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/64 (2006.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01); H04N 5/217 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/646 (2013.01); H04N 5/2175 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01);
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.


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