Image pickup apparatus, image processing method, and computer program
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsDaisuke KURUMA, Nobuyuki Sato
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Abstract
An image pickup apparatus includes an image pickup device including a plurality of imaging planes each having different dark current characteristics, and an image processing unit for receiving a signal from the image pickup device and performing an image generating process. The image processing unit calculates a dark current estimated to be generated in each of the plurality of imaging planes, independently for each imaging plane, and performs a dark current eliminating process on the basis of a dark current value calculated for each imaging plane.
Claims29
An image pickup apparatus comprising:
- an image pickup device including a plurality of imaging planes each having different dark current characteristics;
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- an image processing unit for receiving a signal from the image pickup device and performing an image generating process,
- wherein the image processing unit calculates a dark current estimated to be generated in each of the plurality of imaging planes, independently for each imaging plane, and performs a dark current eliminating process on the basis of a dark current value calculated for each imaging plane.
An image processing method to be performed by an image processing apparatus, the method comprising:
- in an image processing unit,
- an image processing step of receiving a signal acquired by an image pickup device including a plurality of imaging planes each having different dark current characteristics;
- wherein the image processing step calculates a dark current estimated to be generated in each of the plurality of imaging planes, independently for each imaging plane, and performs a dark current eliminating process on the basis of a dark current value calculated for each imaging plane.
A computer program for making an image processing apparatus execute a process, the process comprising:
- an image processing step of performing an image generating process by inputting a signal acquired by an image pickup device including a plurality of imaging planes each having different dark current characteristics, to an image processing unit;
- wherein the image processing step calculates a dark current estimated to be generated in each of the plurality of imaging planes, independently for each imaging plane, and performs a dark current eliminating process on the basis of a dark current value calculated for each imaging plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.