Image signal processing unit and digital camera
AssigneeHoya Corporation
InventorKoichi Sato
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Abstract
An image signal processing unit which processes image signals corresponding to an image divided into a plurality of image-areas is provided. The image signal processing unit comprises a first detector, a second detector, and a blurring processor. The first detector detects a sharpness. The sharpness corresponds to how much of the image-area is in focus based on the image signals. The second detector detects an out-of-focus area from the image-areas when the sharpness of an out-of-focus area is out of a predetermined permissible range. The blurring processor carries out a blurring process for the out-of-focus area signal corresponding to the out-of-focus area.
Claims6
An image signal processing unit which processes image signals corresponding to an image divided into a plurality of image-areas, comprising:
- a first detector that detects a sharpness corresponding to how much of said image-area is in focus based on said image signals;
- a second detector that detects an out-of-focus area, when said sharpness is out of a predetermined permissible range, for said image-area;
- a blurring processor that carries out a blurring process for an out-of-focus area signal corresponding to said out-of-focus area,
- wherein said first detector detects a luminance variation of a selected image-area, by calculating a difference between a luminance at said selected image-area and a luminance at another image-area that is neighboring said selected image-area, and said second detector detects said out-of-focus area, when the luminance variation is under a predetermined first threshold value for judging whether to carry out said blurring process, for said image-areas, and
- wherein said first detector smoothes a first luminance variation of a first image-area with a neighboring luminance variation of another image-area that is neighboring said first image-area, and replaces said first luminance variation with the smoothed luminance variation.
An image signal processing unit which processes image signals corresponding to an image divided into a plurality of image-areas, comprising:
- a first detector that detects a sharpness corresponding to how much of said image-area is in focus based on said image signals;
- a second detector that detects an out-of-focus area, when said sharpness is out of a predetermined permissible range, for said image-area;
- a blurring processor that carries out a blurring process for an out-of-focus area signal corresponding to said out-of-focus area,
- wherein said first detector detects a spatial frequency of said image-area to determine said sharpness, and said second detector detects said out-of-focus area, by determining when the spatial frequency is under a predetermined threshold frequency, for judging whether to carry out said blurring process, for said image-areas,
- wherein said first detector smoothes a first spatial frequency of a first image-area with a neighboring spatial frequency of another image-area that is neighboring said first image-area, and replaces said first spatial frequency with said smoothed spatial frequency of said first image-area.
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