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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 29, 2016
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2014
Morpho, Inc., Tokyo, JP;
Takeshi Miura, Tokyo, JP;
Shogo Sawai, Tokyo, JP;
Yasuhiro Kuroda, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroshi Koyama, Tokyo, JP;
Kazuhiro Hiramoto, Tokyo, JP;
Kosuke Ishiguro, Tokyo, JP;
Ryo Ono, Tokyo, JP;
MORPHO, INC., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An object of the present invention is to provide an image processing device and the like that can generate a composite image in a desired focusing condition. In a smartphone, an edge detecting sectiondetects an edge as a feature from a plurality of input images taken with different focusing distances, and detects the intensity of the edge as a feature value. A depth estimating sectionthen estimates the depth of a target pixel, which is information representing which of the plurality of input images is in focus at the target pixel, by using the edge intensity detected by the edge detecting section. A depth map generating sectionthen generates a depth map based on the estimation results by the depth estimating section