US 11,997,398 B2
Imaging apparatus, image processing apparatus, and image processing method
Yasutaka Hirasawa, Tokyo (JP); Yuhi Kondo, Tokyo (JP); Legong Sun, Tokyo (JP); and Taishi Ono, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/602,588
Filed by SONY GROUP CORPORATION, Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 7, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/004824
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Oct. 8, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/213238, PCT Pub. Date Oct. 22, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-079979 (JP), filed on Apr. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0210322 A1, Jun. 30, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 23/951 (2023.01); G06T 1/00 (2006.01); G06T 5/50 (2006.01)
CPC H04N 23/951 (2023.01) [G06T 1/0007 (2013.01); G06T 5/50 (2013.01); G06T 2207/10024 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
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1. An imaging apparatus, comprising:
an imaging unit that has a first pixel block and a second pixel block provided in a pixel region, wherein
the first pixel block including polarization pixels with two different polarization directions and a non-polarization pixel,
the second pixel block incuding includes polarization pixels with three different polarization directions or polarization pixels with polarization directions orthogonal to one another, and a non-polarization pixel, and
two polarization directions of the three different polarization directions and one polarization direction of the polarization directions orthogonal to one another are polarization directions equal to a polarization direction of a polarization pixel of the polarization pixels in the first pixel block.