Patent ID: 7567727

Claim:
An image processing device comprising: a data continuity detector configured to detect continuity of data in image data made up of a plurality of pixels acquired by light signals of a real world being cast upon a plurality of detecting elements each having spatio-temporal integration effects, of which a part of continuity of the light signals of the real world have been lost; and a real world estimating unit configured to constrain pixel values of pixels of interest within said image data so as to match said pixel values acquired by the integration effects in at least one dimensional direction when a first function representing said real world light signals is approximated with a second function which is a polynomial, the real world estimating unit configured to calculate differences between the pixels of interest and other pixels and to calculate features of the second function using the differences, the real world estimating unit configured to calculate a number of features equal to an order of the second function, the pixel values of said pixels corresponding to a position in at least one dimensional direction of time-space directions of said image data being pixel values acquired by integration effects in said at least one dimensional direction, corresponding to the continuity of said data detected by said data continuity detector, and to generate said second function approximating said first function.