US Patent 7595800 Signal processing device, method, and program

Patent 7595800 was granted and assigned to Sony on September, 2009 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

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Patent attributes

Current Assignee

Sony

Patent Jurisdiction

United States Patent and Trademark Office

Patent Number

7595800

Patent Inventor Names

Seiji Wada0

Takashi Sawao0

Takahiro Nagano0

Toru Miyake0

Tetsujiro Kondo0

Junichi Ishibashi0

Naoki Fujiwara0

Date of Patent

September 29, 2009

Patent Application Number

11670754

Date Filed

February 2, 2007

Patent Primary Examiner

Charles Kim

Patent abstract

A data processing apparatus and method, where the apparatus includes a region selecting unit configured to select a region corresponding to a pixel of interest, a frequency detector configured to detect a frequency corresponding to pixels belonging to the region, a continuity detector configured to detect data continuity of the image data, and a real world estimating unit configured to estimate the light signals by estimating the continuity of the real world light signals which have been lost.