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.
Claims9
An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- one or more processors configured to:
- receive a plurality of viewpoint images based on picked up image data acquired on the basis of a light ray passing through an image pickup lens and a lens array;
- carry out weighting for each of the plurality of viewpoint images in an image plane based on depth information;
- and
- synthesize two or more viewpoint images from the plurality of viewpoint images by using said weighting.
An image processing method, comprising:
- in one or more processors:
- receiving a plurality of viewpoint images based on picked up image data acquired on the basis of a light ray passing through an image pickup lens and a lens array;
- performing weighting for each of the plurality of viewpoint images in an image plane based, at least in part, on depth information and
- synthesizing two or more viewpoint images from the plurality of viewpoint images by using said weighting.
An image processing apparatus, comprising:
- one or more processors configured to:
- perform weighting of two or more first viewpoint images based, at least in part, on depth information, the two or more first viewpoint images corresponding to an image plane and being based on picked up image data, and
- produce one or more second viewpoint images by synthesizing the weighted two or more first viewpoint images,
- wherein the picked up image data is acquired on the basis of a light ray passing through an image pickup lens and a lens array.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.