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AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorsTEPPEI KURITA, YING LU, YUHI KONDO, YASUTAKA HIRASAWA
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An unpolarized component image generating section 32-1 generates unpolarized component image signals of specific and non-specific colors. A polarized component image generating section 33-1 generates polarized component image signals of the specific and non-specific colors. A specific color polarization property detecting section 34-1 detects polarization properties of the specific color using pixel signals of polarized or unpolarized pixels of the specific color having at least three polarization directions and pixel signals of polarized pixels having two polarization directions. An unpolarized color polarization property detecting section 35 detects polarization properties of the non-specific color on the basis of the polarization properties of the specific color detected by the specific color polarization property detecting section 34-1, the pixel signals of the unpolarized pixels of the non-specific color, and the pixel signals of the polarized pixels of the non-specific color having fewer polarization directions than the polarized pixels of the specific color. The polarization properties are thus detected for each color without recourse to the assumption that the degree of polarization is the same for each color.
An image processing apparatus comprising:
An image processing method comprising:
A program for causing a computer to execute a process on an image including polarized pixels and unpolarized pixels, the process comprising:
A solid-state imaging apparatus comprising:
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.