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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. 22, 2018

Filed:

Jan. 13, 2012
Applicants:

Muhammad Atif, Stuttgart, DE;

Muhammad Siddiqui, Stuttgart, DE;

Christian Unruh, Stuttgart, DE;

Markus Kamm, Stuttgart, DE;

Inventors:

Muhammad Atif, Stuttgart, DE;

Muhammad Siddiqui, Stuttgart, DE;

Christian Unruh, Stuttgart, DE;

Markus Kamm, Stuttgart, DE;

Assignee:

Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/225 (2006.01); H04N 5/335 (2011.01); H04N 9/04 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01); G02B 9/00 (2006.01); H04N 9/64 (2006.01); H04N 5/357 (2011.01); H04N 5/33 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 9/646 (2013.01); H04N 5/3572 (2013.01); H04N 9/045 (2013.01); H04N 5/332 (2013.01);
Abstract

A lens unit of an imaging unit features longitudinal chromatic aberration. From an imaged scene, an imaging sensor unit captures non-color-corrected first images of different spectral content. An intensity processing unit computes broadband luminance sharpness information from the first images on the basis of information descriptive for imaging properties of the lens unit. A chrominance processing unit computes chrominance information on the basis of the first images. A synthesizing unit combines the computed chrominance and luminance information to provide an output image having, for example, extended depth-of-field. The imaging unit may be provided in a camera system, a digital microscope, as examples.


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