Patent ID: 8711256
Filing Date: 2014-04-29
Classification: H04N

Abstract:
1. An image processing apparatus comprising: circuitry that includes an RGB color filter and which is configured to remove wavelength components that are not in a visible light region from color image data to produce filtered color image data composed of only wavelength components in the visible light region; remove wavelength components that are in the visible light region from monochrome image data to produce filtered monochrome image data composed of wavelength components not in the visible light region; decompose the filtered color image data into luminance information and color difference information; extract only the color difference information associated with the filtered color image data and not the luminance information associated with the filtered color image; output only the extracted color difference information and not the luminance information associated with the filtered color image; extract luminance information associated with the filtered monochrome image data; output the extracted luminance information associated with the filtered monochrome image data; and synthesize the outputted color difference information and the outputted luminance information to generate composite image data.