APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR ACQUIRING WIDE DYNAMIC RANGE IMAGE IN AN IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS
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1. An apparatus for acquiring a Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) image in an image processing apparatus, comprising:
- a stereo camera comprising at least two image pickup devices that photograph images of each of one or more frames with different exposure times;
an image acquirer which controls the exposure times of the at least two image pickup devices, acquires the images photographed by the at least two image pickup devices, and outputs the acquired images of each of the one or more frames; and
a WDR processor which determines a correlation between the images photographed of each of the one or more frames with different exposure times, and synthesizes the images photographed with different exposure times into one image based on the correlation.
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Abstract
A method is provided for acquiring a Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) image in an image processing apparatus, in which images corresponding to each of consecutive frames are photographed with a stereo camera including at least two image pickup devices with different exposure times, a correlation between images photographed in each frame at different exposure times is checked, and the images photographed at the different exposure times are synthesized into one image based on the correlation.
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1. An apparatus for acquiring a Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) image in an image processing apparatus, comprising:
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a stereo camera comprising at least two image pickup devices that photograph images of each of one or more frames with different exposure times; an image acquirer which controls the exposure times of the at least two image pickup devices, acquires the images photographed by the at least two image pickup devices, and outputs the acquired images of each of the one or more frames; and a WDR processor which determines a correlation between the images photographed of each of the one or more frames with different exposure times, and synthesizes the images photographed with different exposure times into one image based on the correlation. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A method for acquiring a Wide Dynamic Range (WDR) image in an image processing apparatus, comprising:
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photographing images corresponding to each of one or more frames, with a stereo camera comprising at least two image pickup devices, with different exposure times; checking a correlation between images photographed of each of the one or more frames with different exposure times; and synthesizing the images photographed with the different exposure times into one image based on the correlation. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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