US 11,812,157 B2
Image processing device and image processing program
Yutaka Mizukusa, Nagoya (JP); and Kunitoshi Shimizu, Nagoya (JP)
Assigned to Kowa Company, Ltd., Nagoya (JP)
Appl. No. 17/615,085
Filed by Kowa Company, Ltd., Nagoya (JP)
PCT Filed May 29, 2020, PCT No. PCT/JP2020/021406
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Nov. 29, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/241844, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 3, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 2019-102259 (JP), filed on May 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0232155 A1, Jul. 21, 2022
Int. Cl. H04N 23/56 (2023.01); H04N 23/72 (2023.01)
CPC H04N 23/72 (2023.01) [H04N 23/56 (2023.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An image processing device comprising:
a plurality of light sources configured to irradiate an object with light and a control circuit configured to control light emission of the plurality of light sources;
a camera configured to photograph the object; and
a processor configured to control switching of a light emission pattern of the plurality of light sources and to control photographing execution timing of the camera, wherein the processor is configured to:
control the plurality of light sources to emit light with a plurality of light emission patterns;
photograph the object at a plurality of times during at least two or more patterns among the plurality of light emission patterns to obtain a plurality of intermediate images; and
generate one final image based on the plurality of intermediate images, and
the processor is further configured to:
perform ranking of a plurality of regions based on gray values, the plurality of regions each including at least one or more pixels and being at the same position in each of the plurality of intermediate images;
extract representative regions based on the ranking; and
combine the representative regions to generate the final image.