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AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsTohru Kurata, Manabu Kubo, Kimitaka Wada, Toshiyuki Kaimi
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A method and an apparatus for correcting distortion of image-taking video signals are provided. The method and an apparatus adopting the method are capable of reducing distortion generated in a taken picture by a focal plane phenomenon caused by a hand movement or the like in an image-taking apparatus employing an image-taking device of an X-Y address type. To be more specific, this method is capable of correcting distortion observed in a taken image as distortion caused by a positional change, which occurs in the horizontal and/or vertical directions of the taken image at a photographing time as a positional change of the image-taking device. In accordance with the method, one screen segment of the taken image is divided into a plurality of image sub-segments. For each of the image sub-segments, the rate of the positional change of the image-taking device is detected. Then, in each of the image sub-segments, the distortion caused by the positional change of the image-taking device in the taken image is corrected on the basis of the rate detected for each of the image sub-segments as the rate of the positional change of the image-taking device.
A method for correcting distortions contained in a signal representing a taken image as distortions caused by a positional change, which occurs in horizontal and/or vertical directions of said taken image at a photographing time as a positional change of an image-taking device, said method comprising the steps of:
A method for correcting distortions contained in a signal representing a taken image as distortions caused by a positional displacement, which is caused at a photographing time by a hand movement as a positional displacement of an image-taking device, said method comprising the steps of:
An apparatus for correcting distortions contained in a signal representing a taken image as distortions caused by a positional change, which occurs at a photographing time as a positional change of an image-taking device, said apparatus comprising:
An apparatus for correcting distortions contained in a signal representing a taken image as distortions caused by a positional displacement, which is caused at a photographing time by a hand movement as a positional displacement of an image-taking device, said apparatus comprising:
An apparatus for correcting distortions contained in a signal representing a taken image as distortions caused by a positional change, which occurs at a photographing time as a positional change of an image-taking device, said apparatus comprising:
An apparatus for correcting distortions contained in a signal representing a taken image as distortions caused by a positional displacement, which is caused at a photographing time by a hand movement as a positional displacement of an image-taking device, said apparatus comprising:
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