Patent ID: 9007518
Filing Date: 2015-04-14
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image pickup system comprising: an illumination unit configured to emit light to a subject; an image pickup unit configured to capture an image of the subject; a control unit configured to obtain, from the image pickup unit, a first captured image of the subject to which the illumination unit emits light at an angle and a second captured image of the subject to which the illumination unit emits light at a different angle from the angle at which light is emitted to the subject of the first captured image; and an image signal generation unit configured to generate an image signal using a luminance signal of the first captured image as a luminance signal of the image signal and a color signal of the second captured image as a color signal of the image signal, wherein the image signal generation unit generates the image signal that corresponds to both an area of the first captured image and an area of the second captured image which satisfy a predetermined hue condition, a predetermined saturation condition and a predetermined luminance condition.