US 2006/0188155 A1Published application

Color signal processing method

AssigneeSanyo Electric Co., Ltd.

InventorHisashi Matsuyama

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Abstract

The invention alleviates a load in color signal processing for a color component signal containing an offset signal component owing to infrared light. In a case where the respective color component signals <R>, <G> and <B> are substantially the same as <IR>, each of the color component signals is almost made of an offset signal component, and a signal component corresponding to an intrinsic wavelength region of each of R, G and B is slight. In this case, calculations for obtaining color difference signals Cr and Cb are omitted and a monochrome signal made of only a brightness signal Y is generated. On the other hand, in the case of the <IR> being substantially 0, when generating Y, Cr and Cb, a compensation process for removing influence due to the offset signal component is omitted.

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A color signal processing method that uses a reference signal corresponding to a light component of an offset component band and a plurality of kinds of color component signals where a signal component corresponding to a light component of each of particular colors different from each other and an offset signal component corresponding to a light component of the offset component band are combined, comprising:

detecting an offset domination state where a ratio of the offset signal component in each of the color component signals is evaluated based on the reference signal to detect an offset domination state where the ratio for each of the color component signals is equal to or more than a predetermined threshold value;
generating a monochrome signal where, in the case of the offset domination state, based on each of the color component signals, a monochrome signal is generated;
and
generating a color signal where, in the case of a state other than the offset domination state, a chromatic color signal corresponding to each of the color component signals is generated.

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