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Flicker correction apparatus, flicker correction method and image sensing apparatus

US8471923B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateDec 6, 2011
Grant dateJun 25, 2013
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Expiry dateDec 6, 2031

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N23/745
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A flicker detection region in which an image signal has values relating to luminance and colors within predetermined ranges is extracted from a plurality of flicker detection regions allocated in the vertical and horizontal directions of an image. A flicker component is detected using the luminance information of the image signal in the extracted flicker detection region. A correction value to correct the flicker component is generated from the detected flicker component. This makes it possible to accurately correct, using a simple arrangement, a flicker component contained in an image sensed under a light source whose brightness periodically changes even when the object or the image sensing apparatus moves.

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