Patent ID: 7386184
Filing Date: 2008-06-10
Classification: G06T,H04N

Abstract:
1. An electronic camera, comprising: an image pickup device including a light-receiving plane which photoelectrically converts a subject image and on which any given partial image area are readable from a maximal image area, the maximal image area being used to generate an entire image of a maximum number of pixels on said light-receiving plane; a positional data generating section which generates positional data on said partial image area with respect to said maximal image area; a memory which holds a first edge enhancing filter used for data on said entire image and a second edge enhancing filter whose filter size is set to be smaller than that of said first edge enhancing filter; and an image processing section which performs edge enhancement processing on data on a partial image using said second edge enhancing filter, the partial image being extracted from said partial image area based on said positional data, wherein a difference in edge widths of said partial image and said entire image is minimum when said partial image is enlarged and outputted in a same size as that of said entire image.