Patent ID: 9402037
Filing Date: 2016-07-26
CPC Classification: H04N

Claim Text:
1. An imaging apparatus comprising: an imaging unit which photographs a subject to obtain image data; a storage unit which stores film noise effect generating image data, wherein the film noise effect generating image data includes scratch image data, noise image data and dust image data, the scratch image data and the noise image data are larger than the image data, and the film noise effect image data is obtained by combining the scratch image data, noise image data and dust image data multiplied by a gain in the range of 0 to 1; a random seed generating unit which generates a random seed to decide a pseudo-random number sequence; a pseudo-random number generating unit which generates a pseudo-random number in accordance with the generated random seed; a cut out range deciding unit which decides a cut out range of the film noise effect generating image data based on the generated pseudo-random number, wherein a lateral size of the cut out range is the same as that of the image data; and a special image processing unit which cuts out a part of the film noise effect generating image data based on the cut out range, resizes a longitudinal size of the film noise effect image data in the cut out range in accordance with a longitudinal size of the image data, and combines the resized film noise effect image data with the image data, wherein the random seed is decided during photography.