Patent Document ID: 20090174795
Application ID: 12260435
Patent Status: 0

Claim One:
1. An image processing apparatus, connected to an image pickup part in which exposure conditions for photographing a measuring object can be changed, the image pickup part comprising: an image pickup section constituted of an assembly of a plurality of pixels for photographing; the image processing apparatus comprising: a photographing controller that generates a plurality of image data by making the image pickup part photograph the measuring object a plurality of times under different exposure conditions; a compositing section that generates composite image data, based on luminance information of the plurality of image data, the compositing section comprising: composite luminance calculator that calculates a distribution value corresponding to an intensity distribution of lights incident on an image pickup element of the image pickup section as a composite luminance distribution of the composite image data, based on the luminance information of each image data and corresponding exposure condition; and a processing time calculator that calculates an expected processing time required from the plurality of times of photographing up to generation of the composite image data.