Image capturing device including lens array and processing
AssigneeSony Corporation
InventorShinichiro Tajiri
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Abstract
Disclosed herein is an image pickup apparatus, including: an image pickup lens; a lens array disposed on an image formation plane of the image pickup lens; an image pickup device adapted to receive a light ray passing through the image pickup lens and the lens array to acquire picked up image data; and an image processing section adapted to carry out an image process for the picked up image data; the image processing section including a viewpoint image production section adapted to produce a plurality of viewpoint images based on the picked up image data, and an image synthesis processing section adapted to synthesize two or more viewpoint images from among the viewpoint images.
Claims6
An image pickup apparatus, comprising:
- an image processing section adapted to carry out an image process for picked up image data,
- said image processing section including
- a viewpoint image production section adapted to produce a plurality of viewpoint images based on the picked up image data, and
- an image synthesis processing section adapted to synthesize two or more viewpoint images from among the plurality of viewpoint images,
- wherein said image synthesis processing section sets a synthesis rate higher for an image of an image pickup object at a position spaced by a greater distance from a focal plane.
An image processing method, comprising:
- acquiring picked up image data from an image pickup device which receives a light ray passing through an image pickup lens and a lens array disposed on an image formation plane of the image pickup lens;
- producing a plurality of viewpoint images based on the picked up image data;
- and
- synthesizing two or more viewpoint images from among the plural viewpoint images by setting a synthesis rate higher for an image or an image pickup object at a position spaced by a greater distance from a focal plane.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.