Image processing apparatus and image processing method
AssigneesSony Corporation, OPT Corporation
InventorsRyo Kamiya, Masayuki Ito
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Abstract
An image processing apparatus is disclosed. The image processing apparatus includes a thinning-out section generating thinned-out line data of thinned-out data constituted by a plurality of the thinned-out line data, the thinned-out data being obtained by thinning out wide-field image data with distortion captured using a wide-angle lens, and sequentially outputting the thinned-out line data at every predetermined timing, a switching section performing switching from an output of the wide-field image data to an output of the thinned-out line data in response to the predetermined timing, and a buffer temporarily storing the wide-field image data and the thinned-out data constituted by the plurality of thinned-out data outputted after the switching.
Claims6
An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- a conversion section that converts first image data in a first format into second image data in a second different format, the first and second image data associated with a wide-field image having distortion due to being captured using a wide-angle lens;
- a thinning-out section that generates thinned-out line data from the second image data and sequentially outputs the thinned-out line data at every predetermined timing, a plurality of the thinned-out line data constituting thinned-out data corresponding to a thinned-out wide-field image;
- a switching section that performs switching from an output of the second image data to an output of the thinned-out line data in response to a predetermined signal;
- a correction section that performs distortion correction on a selected area of the wide-field image to generate a distortion-corrected image;
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- a synthesis section that synthesizes the thinned-out wide-field image and the distortion-corrected image to generate a synthesized image for display on a display unit.
An image processing method, comprising:
- converting first image data in a first format into second image data in a second different format, the first image data and the second image data associated with a wide-field image having distortion due to being captured using a wide-angle lens;
- generating thinned-out line data by thinning out the second image data;
- sequentially outputting the thinned-out line data at every predetermined timing, a plurality of the thinned-out line data constituting thinned-out data corresponding to a thinned-out wide-field image;
- switching from an output of the second image data to an output of the thinned-out line data in response to a predetermined signal;
- performing distortion correction on a selected area of the wide-field image to generate a distortion-corrected image;
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- synthesizing the thinned-out wide-field image and the distortion-corrected image to generate a synthesized image for display on a display unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.