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7260271 |
Digital image data correction apparatus, digital image data correction method and digital image pickup apparatus
The present invention discloses a digital image pickup apparatus. The digital image pickup apparatus reads digital image data from a main memory in a horizontal direction. The digital image pickup...
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7260242 |
Spatial surface prior information reflectance estimation (SPIRE) algorithms
A new class of algorithms has been developed to estimate spectral reflectance in remote sensing imagery. These algorithms are called Surface Prior Information Reflectance Estimation (SPIRE)...
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7257271 |
Noise reduction in color digital images using pyramid decomposition
A method of removing noise from a color digital image, including receiving an original color digital image including a plurality of pixels represented in a primary-color space; producing at least...
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7257238 |
System, apparatus, and method for image scanning quality adjustment
An apparatus, system and process for automatically adjusting the quality of a scanned image includes a conversion module configured to produce a processed image matrix by modifying each value in a...
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7257272 |
Virtual image generation
Artifacts are detected in a cyclopean virtual image generated from stereo images. A disparity map is generated from the stereo images. Individual projected images are determined based on the...
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7256794 |
Method and apparatus for processing video data of display device
Discloses herein is a method and apparatus for processing video data of a display device in which dithering noise generating when a motion picture is displayed can be minimized. According to the...
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7257270 |
Image processing device and method, and recording medium
In an image processing device which carries out processing for detecting and correcting defective portions of an image, it is possible to pre-emptively prevent the defective portion detecting and...
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7252386 |
Keystone distortion correction of a projector
The method comprises the steps of: capturing an output image projected on an actual projection surface; outputting imaging information that includes brightness information having a correlation to a...
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7248745 |
Differential image adjustments
Methods and apparatus implementing systems and techniques for adjusting images. In general, in one implementation, the technique includes: receiving input defining an adjustment to be applied to a...
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7248750 |
Object information processing apparatus, image processing system, game apparatus and image processing method
An object information processing apparatus is provided for obtaining object information from input image data comprising pixels. The object information processing apparatus comprises an object...
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7248749 |
Method and apparatus for signal-to-noise ratio dependent image processing
Certain embodiments of the present invention relate to a signal-to-noise ratio dependent image processing system. The method includes computing at least one SNR for at least one region of an image,...
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7245742 |
Video surveillance with speckle imaging
A surveillance system looks through the atmosphere along a horizontal or slant path. Turbulence along the path causes blurring. The blurring is corrected by speckle processing short exposure images...
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7245782 |
Spatial smoothing process and device for dark regions of an image
The invention relates to a process, to a device for smoothing dark regions of images and to a coding system.
a noise level is associated with each image and a luminance value is associated...
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7245783 |
System and method for estimating, synthesizing and matching noise in digital images and image sequences
A method for synthesizing noise in a digital image comprises the steps of (a) estimating noise statistics based on a set of spatial autocorrelation coefficients and a set of spectral correlation...
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7245776 |
Image processing apparatus and its method, program and storage medium
An object of this invention is to efficiently attain noise removal. In order to achieve the object, the discrete wavelet transforms of an input image are computed to output wavelet coefficients of...
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7245761 |
Method and apparatus for reducing distortion in images
An algorithm is provided for reducing distortion in an image captured by a camera or other imaging system having more than one optical viewpoint. The algorithm can use a captured image, statistical...
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7242819 |
Method and system for advanced edge-adaptive interpolation for interlace-to-progressive conversion
An improved method and system for edge adaptive interpolation. The method uses a “9×2” window to detect the edge direction with post-processing to remove any artifacts due to the possible...
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7239758 |
Signal processing device for reducing noise of image signal, signal processing program, and signal processing method
The present invention provides a signal processing device for removing image noise. The device includes a first storage part for recording first image data captured from a field of view, a second...
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7236270 |
Method of setting reference data of shading corrections, and image reading apparatus
A white reference image is inputted to an image sensor with a light source lit up, and white reference data is set every effective photosensor element by inspecting the output signals of the image...
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7231098 |
Shading noise filter
A shading correction is employed for a scanner to correct shading distortion. However, an image corrected with the shading corrective curve has shading noise lines due to the effects of various...
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7227989 |
***WITHDRAWN PATENT AS PER THE LATEST USPTO WITHDRAWN LIST***
Image processing for image correction
In the processing of image data, image data are analyzed to determine a characteristic of the image, and the characteristic and a first correction parameter in correspondence to the characteristic...
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7228003 |
Flat-field, panel flattening, and panel connecting methods
A plurality of panels are assembled into a single image. Each of the panels may have different intensities throughout the panel, as well as non-uniformities between panels. The panels are modified...
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7228007 |
Resolution correction apparatus, resolution correction program, and computer-readable recording medium having same program recorded thereon
A resolution correction apparatus of the present invention includes: an outline signal generator for generating an outline signal, which represents an outline of an image, based on an image signal;...
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7224850 |
Modification of red-eye-effect in digital image
In one aspect, the present disclosure describes a process for automatic artifact compensation in a digital representation of an image. The process includes detecting, by a processor, regions...
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7224826 |
Fluorescent intensity measuring method and apparatus
A fluorescent image is obtained by emitting the light with a wavelength which excites a labelling fluorescent substance, a mask is created by a foreign matter area image extracted from an image of...
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7224848 |
Method and arrangement for FPN correction in an image signal from an image sensor
In order to correct for fixed pattern noise in the signals of an image sensor, image signal values are read out from the pixels of the sensor. Individual correction values are added as analogue...
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7224849 |
Method for determining an optimum gain response in a spatial frequency response correction for a projection system
A method for determining an optimum gain response in a spatial frequency correction for a projection system comprises the steps of setting a code value ( 100 ) to a first code value; projecting a...
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7221783 |
Method and arrangement for reducing noise
The present invention concerns a method and an arrangement for reducing noise in a substance raw data image containing noise. The method may comprise following steps in any order for removing...
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7218793 |
Reducing differential resolution of separations
Certain disclosed implementations use digital image processing to reduce the differential resolution among separations or images in film frames, such as, for example, red flare. A location in the...
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7218794 |
Method for detecting grid in block-based compressed video
A grid detector detects the existence and the location of grids in DCT compressed videos. When a grid is detected in the input video, a post-processor is turned on and the de-blocking processing is...
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7215822 |
Image processing device and image outputting device
The invention naturally enhances the sharpness of an image by performing appropriate sharpness processing. An image processing device receives input original image data, performs sharpness...
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7215826 |
Rendering three-dimensional streak tube imaging lidar (STIL) data to two-dimensional contrast and range mappings thereof
A rendering method converts three-dimensional streak tube imaging lidar (STIL) data to two-dimensional contrast and range maps thereof. A temporal portion of the STIL data is processed for each...
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7212686 |
Image processing apparatus
An image processing apparatus for expanding the frequency band of enhancement to increase the effect of improvement of the image quality and realizing enhancement in two dimensions for an image...
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7212682 |
Method and system for enhancing measurement
A method and system for enhancing measurement of a bar code or other object includes storing a pixel image containing a bar code; determining bar code orientation relative to the stored pixel...
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7209599 |
System and method for scanned image bleedthrough processing
Disclosed are systems and methods for identifying bleedthrough in an image in which a reference tone point of a first image is determined, putative bleedthrough pixels in the first image are...
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7206101 |
Computationally efficient noise reduction filter
A technique for reducing noise in pixel images includes shrinking initial image data, and processing the shrunken image with known segmentation-based filtering techniques which identify and...
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7206459 |
Enhancement of compressed images
A method and apparatus for enhancing compressed images is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises characterizing quantization noise in reconstructed low pass coefficients generated in...
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7206461 |
Digital image acquisition and processing system
A digital image acquisition and processing system that automatically corrects dust artifact regions within acquired images by compiling a statistical dust map from multiple images acquired under...
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7203379 |
Digital image cross talk correction
An image processing system comprises a processing circuitry operable to receive a digital image and a line buffer circuitry communicatively coupled to the processing circuitry, the line buffer...
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7203375 |
Quantization error compensation apparatus and method thereof
A quantization error compensation includes a dividing unit to divide an input current image signal into a first high-frequency signal and a low-frequency signal; a changing unit to replace bits of...
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7200280 |
Image processing apparatus
The image processing apparatus includes a detection device which detects an improper image portion of image information, a correction device which corrects the improper image portion, a display...
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7194135 |
Image recording device
An image recording device that compresses and records image data is provided wherein noise reduction is recursively performed on the non-compressed image signals and the feedback gain or the...
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7194141 |
Image resolution conversion using pixel dropping
A system for generating image conversion data is provided. The system includes a numerator buffer storing numerator data of a conversion ratio, such as where the numerator of the ratio represents...
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7190825 |
Portable communication device for stereoscopic image display and transmission
In a method and system of correcting deformation of a 3-D image, display of different sense of distance as a photographing ratio of the left and right cameras ( 11 and 12 ) to the object ( 60 )...
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7190844 |
Image processing method, storage medium, image processor and image recorder
A method of applying an image processing to two dimensionally-arranged original image data corresponding to an entire image region of a photographed image including a main photographed-subject;...
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7184607 |
Method and apparatus for automatically adjusting sharpening weighting value
A method of automatically adjusting sharpening weighting value in an image sharpening process is disclosed. The method utilizes scanning a correction board having a black reference region, a white...
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7177482 |
Boundary line detection apparatus and method, and image processing apparatus and method as well as recording medium
A boundary line detection apparatus and method and an image processing apparatus and method as well as a recording medium by which the jaggy in the proximity of a boundary line is removed without...
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7173734 |
Intercolor bleed reduction in liquid ink printers
A system and method for detecting edge locations where intercolor bleeding would likely be a problem, and reducing the amount of ink printed at those locations. The method operates on image data...
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7173741 |
System and method for handling bad pixels in image sensors
A method and apparatus for handling bad pixels in an image sensor array includes processing data values associated with the pixels of the image sensor. Processing the data values is performed by at...
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7173971 |
Trailing artifact avoidance system and method
A system and method is provided to avoid or otherwise reduce luminance and/or chrominance trailing artifacts in block-based hybrid video coders using multiple block sizes and shapes. The proposed...
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