Patent ID: 9200895
Filing Date: 2015-12-01
Classification: G01B,G02B,G03B,H04N

Abstract:
1. An image input device comprising: a positional information acquiring unit for acquiring positional information including at least one of a height of an object and a distance to the object; imaging means having at least three kinds of arranged pixels with different spectral sensitivities, to convert an incident object image into original image data having at least three kinds of original image components including a visible light component and an infrared light component; and a color space converting unit which performs weighting to the visible light component and the infrared light component on the basis of the positional information acquired by the positional information acquiring unit, to convert the original image data into color space including a luminance signal and a chromaticity signal adjusted on the basis of the weighted visible light component and the infrared light component.