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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:
May. 02, 2017

Filed:

Apr. 15, 2014
Applicant:

Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Inventors:

Yuhi Okuda, Tokyo, JP;

Akihiko Iketani, Tokyo, JP;

Assignee:

NEC Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/235 (2006.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01); H04N 5/232 (2006.01); H04N 5/349 (2011.01); H04N 5/225 (2006.01); G03B 5/00 (2006.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/2351 (2013.01); G03B 5/00 (2013.01); H04N 5/2254 (2013.01); H04N 5/23254 (2013.01); H04N 5/23287 (2013.01); H04N 5/33 (2013.01); H04N 5/349 (2013.01); H04N 5/3572 (2013.01);
Abstract

The image capture device includes an image capture element which is formed of a plurality of pixels and acquires a captured image by detecting light from a subject and converting the light into an electric signal, an optical path changing unit which changes an optical path of light incident on an image capture element and displaces a position of light incident on the image capture element, a state change determining unit which obtains a deviation of a brightness value per pixel in a captured image, determines whether or not a subject temporally changes its state based on the deviation, and outputs an optical path change instruction to an optical path changing unit when it is determined that the subject does not change its state, a correction value calculating unit which performs a predetermined correction value calculating process on captured images of the same subject before and after a state change by an image capture element and calculates a noise image contained in the captured image as a correction value, and a correction executing unit which eliminates noise from a captured image by use of a correction value.


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