US 12,120,436 B2
Monitoring camera and image processing method
Masashi Koga, Fukuoka (JP); and Jun Ikeda, Fukuoka (JP)
Assigned to I-PRO CO., LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Filed by PANASONIC I-PRO SENSING SOLUTIONS CO., LTD., Fukuoka (JP)
Filed on Mar. 18, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/698,522.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-049933 (JP), filed on Mar. 24, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0311935 A1, Sep. 29, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 23/80 (2023.01); G06T 7/11 (2017.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/80 (2023.01) [G06T 7/11 (2017.01); H04N 23/55 (2023.01); G06T 2207/20081 (2013.01)] 6 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A monitoring camera, comprising:
an image-capturing element that includes a plurality of pixels, and that is configured to acquire, for each of the pixels, a blue component signal, a red component signal, and a green component signal corresponding to light which is from a subject and which is incident through fog or haze;
an optical filter that is disposed between the subject and the image-capturing element, and that is configured to transmit specific-wavelength light having a wavelength equal to or larger than a specific wavelength among the light from the subject;
a first processor that is configured to generate and output a captured image of the subject based on either the blue component signal, the red component signal, and the green component signal for each of the pixels corresponding to the specific-wavelength light or the blue component signal for each of the pixels corresponding to the specific-wavelength light; and
a second processor that is configured to specify a region of interest of an image captured by the image-capturing element,
wherein, when the fog or the haze occurs in the region of interest, the first processor selects either the blue component signal, the red component signal, and the green component signal for each of the pixels corresponding to the specific-wavelength light or the blue component signal for each of the pixels corresponding to the specific-wavelength light, in accordance with a degree of the fog or the haze that occurs in the region of interest.