Patent ID: 7768567

Claim:
An image pickup device comprising: an optical system having a distortion characteristic, the optical system capturing an optical image of an object, the distortion characteristic magnifying a center portion of the optical image and reducing a peripheral portion of the optical image; an image sensor that converts the optical image into image data; a frame memory that stores the image data; a frame memory output control unit that reads a first selected portion of the image data out of the frame memory, the first selected portion being defined by an angle of view, the angle of view being externally defined; a first filter unit that applies a first filtering process to a second selected portion of the image data to generate first-filtered image data, the second selected portion being included in the first selected portion, the second selected portion having a first range of distortion that is smaller than a first threshold value; a distortion correction unit that performs a distortion correction of the first-filtered image data to generate distortion-corrected image data; a second filter unit that applies a second filtering process to a third portion of the distortion-corrected image data to generate second-filtered image data, the second filtering process being different from the first filtering process, the third selected portion having a second range of distortion that is greater than a second threshold value; wherein the image sensor has a color filter array of Red (R) color filters, Green (G) color filters, and Blue (B) color filters; Wherein the image pickup device further comprises: a resize unit that resizes the distortion-corrected image data to generate resized distortion-corrected image data; an RGB synchronization unit that generates color image data for Red (R), Green (G), and Blue (B) from the image data, the color image data being generated for each pixel position of the resized distortion-corrected image data; and a luminance chrominance conversion unit that converts the color image data into luminance chrominance signals representing luminance and chrominance, and wherein the second filter unit performs the second filtering process to the luminance chrominance signals.