Patent ID: 11930160
Assignee: SONY GROUP CORPORATION
Field: Audio-visual technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC H | IPC H

Claim 16:
17. An image processing apparatus comprising:
an information decoding unit configured to generate a polarized image by executing a decoding process of compressed image information generated by an information compression unit reducing an amount of information of polarized image information of each of polarization pixels with at least a plurality of polarization directions in the polarized image including polarization pixels with a plurality of polarization directions,
wherein the amount of information of the polarized image information is reduced by encoding difference information indicating a difference between a reference intensity value of a reference polarization pixel for a respective color and an intensity value of at least one other polarization pixel of the respective color, and
wherein the information decoding unit and the information compression unit are each implemented via at least one processor.