Image processor
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsYuki KISHIDA, Katsuji KUNISUE, Hisako CHIAKI, Ryoji ASADA
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Abstract
Disclosed is an image processor that reduces or eliminates the effects of a flash band regardless of performing a shutter operation or not. An imaging device includes a flash band detector configured to determine whether each image of the consecutive images shown by image signals output from an imager is a flash band image a part of which is affected by a flash, and a flash band compensator configured to, if a first image is determined as the flash band image, generate a third image which is supposed where the third image is fully affected by a flash by using a second image which is not determined as the flash band image, and output the third image instead of the first image.
Claims7
A image processor processing consecutive images, the image processor comprising:
- a determiner configured to determine whether each image of the consecutive images is a flash band image a part of which is affected by a flash;
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- a compensator configured to, if a first image is determined as the flash band image by the determiner, generate a third image which is supposed where the third image is fully affected by a flash by using a second image which is not determined as the flash band image, and output the third image instead of the first image.
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