SIGNAL PROCESSING DEVICE, SIGNAL PROCESSING METHOD, IMAGING APPARATUS, AND IMAGING PROCESSING METHOD

• US 20120201454A1
• Filed: 01/31/2012
• Published: 08/09/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/07/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: NAKAMURA, Hitoshi, IKEYAMA, Hiromasa, SATO, Genta, NAKASUJI, Motohiro
• Application Number:
  US13/362,803
• Publication Number:
  US 20120201454A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 382/167
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/646 for image enhancement, e.g. vertical detail restoration, cross-colour elimination, contour correction, chrominance trapping filters
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/67 for matrixing camera processing pipelines for matrixing of colour signals H04N23/85
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 9/68 for controlling the amplitude of colour signals, e.g. automatic chroma control circuits H04N9/71, H04N9/73 take precedence; camera processing pipelines for controlling the colour saturation of colour signals H04N23/86

Abstract

A signal processing device includes: an enhancement countermeasure unit in which when a linear matrix gain using a linear matrix coefficient is multiplied to a pixel value of an image signal output for each channel by a pixel of an imaging device, whereby an enhancement of color occurs in an image based on the image signal, the image signal in which a portion where the enhancement of color occurs is corrected for each channel is output based on a color-difference component separated from the result of multiplication of the linear matrix coefficient to the pixel value for each channel and a luminance calculated from the result.

Claims

1. A signal processing device comprising:

an enhancement countermeasure unit in which when a linear matrix gain using a linear matrix coefficient is multiplied to a pixel value of an image signal output for each channel by a pixel of an imaging device, whereby an enhancement of color occurs in an image based on the image signal, the image signal in which a portion where the enhancement of color occurs is corrected for each channel is output based on a color-difference component separated from the result of multiplication of the linear matrix coefficient to the pixel value for each channel and a luminance calculated from the result.

2. The signal processing device according to claim 1,

wherein when the enhancement of color is a color fringe of a specific color occurring around the image corresponding to a high luminance pixel or a collapse of gradation where a difference in gradation disappears, the enhancement countermeasure unit calculates a luminance that enhances a color opposite to the specific color, calculates a predetermined correction coefficient satisfying a relation such that a value obtained by multiplying the color-difference component added to a pixel value of the pixel of each channel with a predetermined correction coefficient is equal to or greater than a value obtained by multiplying the color-difference component with the luminance, and corrects the pixel value for each channel using the correction coefficient.

3. The signal processing device according to claim 2,

wherein the enhancement countermeasure unit includes

a color-difference component separation unit that separates a color-difference component for each channel of pixels from the result of multiplication of the linear matrix coefficient to the pixel value of the pixel of each channel,

a luminance generation unit that generates a luminance such that a value obtained by subtracting the value of the color-difference component from the pixel value of the pixel of each channel is not smaller than a predetermined value and a suppression gain that suppresses the luminance,

a color fringe correction coefficient calculation unit that calculates the correction coefficient for correcting the value of the color-difference component so that the value of the color-difference component added to the pixel value of the pixel of each channel is equal to or greater than a value calculated based on the luminance and the suppression gain, and

a color fringe correction unit that corrects the pixel value of each channel by adding the value of the color-difference component corrected using the correction coefficient.

4. The signal processing device according to claim 3,

wherein the luminance and the correction coefficient are variable by a manual operation.

5. A signal processing method in which when a linear matrix gain using a linear matrix coefficient is multiplied to a pixel value of an image signal of each channel, whereby an enhancement of color occurs in an image based on the image signal, the image signal in which a portion where the enhancement of color occurs is corrected for each channel is output based on a color-difference component separated from the result of multiplication of the linear matrix coefficient to the pixel value for each channel and a luminance calculated from the result.

6. An imaging apparatus comprising:

an imaging device that photoelectrically converts incident light entering an imaging surface through an optical system to output an image signal;

a linear matrix operation unit that multiplies a linear matrix gain using a linear matrix coefficient with a pixel value of the image signal of each channel; and

an enhancement countermeasure unit in which when an enhancement of color occurs in an image based on the image signal due to multiplication of the linear matrix gain, the image signal in which a portion where the enhancement of color occurs is corrected for each channel is output based on a color-difference component separated from the result of multiplication of the linear matrix coefficient to the pixel value for each channel and a luminance calculated from the result.

7. An imaging processing method comprising:

multiplying a linear matrix gain using a linear matrix coefficient with a pixel value of the image signal of each channel; and

when an enhancement of color occurs in an image based on the image signal due to multiplication of the linear matrix gain, outputting the image signal in which a portion where the enhancement of color occurs is corrected for each channel based on a color-difference component separated from the result of multiplication of the linear matrix coefficient to the pixel value for each channel and a luminance calculated from the result.