US 12,148,121 B2
Imaging device and image processing method
Hunsoo Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Soyoun Park, Suwon-si (KR); and Byungwook Jung, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on Sep. 1, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/901,023.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2021-0117947 (KR), filed on Sep. 3, 2021; and application No. 10-2022-0080713 (KR), filed on Jun. 30, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0005448 A1, Jan. 4, 2024
Int. Cl. G06T 3/4015 (2024.01)
CPC G06T 3/4015 (2013.01) [G06T 2200/32 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An imaging device comprising:
an image sensor configured to generate an original image; and
a processor comprising:
a remosaic processing circuit configured to generate a first remosaic image by performing remosaic processing on a first region of the original image by using a first remosaic method, and generate a second remosaic image by performing remosaic processing on a second region of the original image by using a second remosaic method; and
a merging circuit configured to generate a converted image having a Bayer pattern based on the first remosaic image and the second remosaic image,
wherein the second region comprises the first region.