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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 20, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 12, 2014
Hitachi Kokusai Electric Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Masatoshi Okuhira, Tokyo, JP;
Haruhiro Koto, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An image processing apparatus includes an imaging unit which outputs an imaging result as a time-series image and an image correction unit, to which the time-series image outputted from the imaging unit is inputted as an input image, for correcting image fluctuation in the input image. The image correction unit includes a temporally-smoothed image generation section which generates a temporally-smoothed image by smoothing time-series input images, a similarity determination section which sets a local area for the temporally-smoothed image and determines similarities between the local area and partial areas of the time-series input images; and a corrected image generation section which selects a partial area having the highest similarity to the local area, and generates a corrected image based on the selected partial area.