Patent ID: 9247153
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: a histogram computation section that, for a plurality of images with different light exposure amounts captured by an image capture section, computes for each of the images a histogram expressing the number of pixels of each pixel value in the pixels contained in each of the respective plurality of images; a light exposure amount ratio computation section that, based on a degree of similarity between a profile of a first histogram computed from a first image out of the plurality of images and a profile of a second histogram computed from a second image out of the plurality of images, computes, as a light exposure amount ratio, a ratio between a light exposure amount for the first image and a light exposure amount for the second image; a pixel value adjustment section that adjusts the pixel values of pixels contained in one image out of the first image or the second image based on the light exposure amount ratio computed by the light exposure amount ratio computation section; and a synthesis section that synthesizes together the one image out of the first image or the second image after pixel value adjustment by the pixel value adjustment section with the other image out of the first image or the second image after pixel value adjustment by the pixel value adjustment section.