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Apparatus and method for combining images

  • US 10,368,015 B2
  • Filed: 08/14/2017
  • Issued: 07/30/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/19/2008
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An image composition apparatus, the apparatus comprising:

  • at least one image sensor configured to acquire incident light and generate a first image signal with color information of a visible band of an optical spectrum and a second image signal comprising a wider band than the first image signal and including black-and-white components of the visible band of the optical spectrum; and

    at least one processor configured to control to;

    divide the first image signal into a color signal and a brightness signal,combine the divided brightness signal of the first image signal with the second image signal, from the at least one image sensor, to generate a combined brightness signal including the wider band of the second image signal, andcompose the combined brightness signal including the wider band with the color signal of the first image signal to generate a color image,wherein the second image signal, which is combined with the divided brightness signal of the first image signal, is a same image signal as the second image signal generated by the at least one image sensor.

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