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Image processing apparatus and image pickup device

US7110613B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateMar 20, 2002
Grant dateSep 19, 2006
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Expiry dateJul 28, 2024

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T7/70
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

Information of light from a subject is converted into information of the electric charges to generate image data for one screen in an image pickup device, the image data is outputted to an image processing LSI, only the image data belonging to a plurality of areas is selected by a processing amount reduction unit, the selected image data is transferred to a RAM in a single chop by a data transfer unit, and the processing of recognizing a white line is executed by a CPU on the basis of the image data stored in the RAM.

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