Patent ID: 8295595
Filing Date: 2012-10-23
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image capture apparatus, comprising: an image capture section that outputs raw data; a converting section that serially sets each interest pixel onto a mosaic image formed of the raw data and that converts a pixel value of an interest pixel into a pixel value for noise removal based on a processing reference pixel value having a unified color signal component in each interest pixel; a noise removing section that removes noise from the pixel value for noise removal; a reversely converting section that converts the pixel value for noise removal with noise removed in the noise removing section into a source pixel value by executing an inverse process relative to the process performed in the converting section; and a demosaicing section that generates full color image data by executing a demosaicing process of a mosaic image formed from the image values processed in the reversely converting section, wherein the pixel value for the noise removal is