IMAGING DEVICE AND IMAGE PROCESSING APPARATUS

• Main Authors: SAWAGUCHI SATOSHI, TAKENAKA HIROICHI, TERAO NORIYUKI, YAMAMOTO HIDEAKI, HARADA TORU, TANAKA TOMONORI, SHOHARA MAKOTO, TAKASU SHUSAKU, IMAE NOZOMI, SATO HIROYUKI, IRINO YOSHIAKI, MASUDA KENSUKE, BESSHO DAISUKE
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: 06.04.2017
• Subjects: ELECTRIC COMMUNICATION TECHNIQUE; ELECTRICITY; PICTORIAL COMMUNICATION, e.g. TELEVISION

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To suppress image processing hardware from increasing with the number of imaging elements in an imaging device having a plurality of imaging elements, thereby simplifying data handling and also improving reliability of the imaging device.SOLUTION: An imaging device having a plurality of imaging elements 11 and 12 comprises: a plurality of page memories 210 and 220 corresponding to the plurality of imaging elements, in which image data output from the plurality of imaging elements are stored, respectively; page memory readout means 230 for reading out the image data stored in the plurality of page memories separately in time; single image processing means 250 for applying prescribed image processing to the image data corresponding to the plurality of imaging elements which were read out separately in time from the plurality of page memories; and write monitoring means 240 for monitoring writing of the image data of the plurality of imaging elements to the plurality of page memories, thereby controlling the start of page memory readout by the page memory readout means.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 2 【課題】複数の撮像素子を有する撮像装置において、撮像素子の数に伴う画像処理用ハードウエアの増加を抑制、データハンドリングの簡素化を図ると共に、信頼性を向上させる。【解決手段】複数の撮像素子１１，１２を有する撮像装置において、複数の撮像素子から出力される画像データをそれぞれ格納する、複数の撮像素子に対応する複数のページメモリ２１０，２２０と、複数のページメモリに格納された画像データを時分割に読み出すページメモリ読出し手段２３０と、複数のページメモリから時分割に読み出された、複数の撮像素子に対応する画像データに対して所定の画像処理を施す単一の画像処理手段２５０と、複数の撮像素子の画像データ複数のページメモリへの書込みを監視して、前記ページメモリ読出し手段のページメモリ読出し開始を制御する書込み監視手段２４０とを有する。【選択図】図２