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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 22, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2014
Applicant:
Kowa Company, Ltd., Nagoya-shi, Aichi, JP;
Inventor:
Toshiaki Nakagawa, Higashimurayama, JP;
Assignee:
KOWA COMPANY, LTD., , JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/00 (2006.01); A61B 3/12 (2006.01); H04N 1/409 (2006.01); H04N 5/21 (2006.01); G06T 5/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06T 11/008 (2013.01); A61B 3/12 (2013.01); G06T 5/002 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); H04N 1/409 (2013.01); H04N 5/21 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10004 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10101 (2013.01); G06T 2207/20216 (2013.01); G06T 2207/30041 (2013.01); H04N 5/357 (2013.01);
Abstract
An average image producing meansproduces an average image from all or some of a plurality of images captured at the same location. A noise extracting meansextracts a noise pixel on the basis of the result of a comparison between the pixel values of the pixels in the captured images and the pixel values of the pixels at the same position in the average image. An interpolating meansinterpolates the pixel value of the noise pixel included in the captured images using the pixel values of other pixels to produce a noise-eliminated image.