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In this paper, a method to estimate parameters of motion blur for Point Spread Function (PSF) is mainly discussed, where we assume that there are two main degradation factors caused by the camera, out-of-focus blur and motion blur. A major contribution of this paper is that the parameters can properly be estimated from a sub-image of the object under inspection if the sub-image contains uniform speckled texture. Here, the cepstrum of the sub-image is fully utilized. Then, a filter convoluted PSF which consists of convolution with PSF (motion blur) and PSF (out-of focus blur) can be utilized for deconvolution of the blurred image for sharpening with significant effect. PSF (out-of-focus blur) is a constant function unique to each camera and lens, and can be confirmed before or after shooting. PSF (motion blur), on the other hand, needs to be estimated on a case-by-case basis since the amount and direction of camera movement varies depending on the time of shooting. Previous research papers have sometimes encountered difficulties in estimating the parameters of motion blur because of the emphasis on generality. In this paper, the main object is made of concrete, and on the surface of it there are speckled textures. We hypothesized that we can narrow down the candidates of parameters of motion blur by using these speckled patterns. To verify this hypothesis, we conducted experiments to confirm and examine the following two points using a general-purpose camera used in actual bridge inspections: 1. Influence on the cepstrum when the isolated point-like texture unique to concrete structures is used as a feature point. 2. Selection method of multiple images to narrow down the candidate minima of the cepstrum. 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