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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20090097777 | DIGITAL IMAGE TONE REMAPPING METHOD AND APPARATUS A digital image tone remapping method is disclosed. The method includes computing an average luminance value of a digital image; generating a preliminary tone mapping function according to the average luminance value; generating a luminance statistic of the digital imag... | 04/16/2009 |
| 20090022397 | Method and apparatus for removing noise from a digital image One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that removes noise from an image. During operation, the system first identifies blobs in the image, wherein a blob is a set of contiguous pixels which possibly represents a character or a portion of a character i... | 01/22/2009 |
| 20080019608 | Image dynamic range control for visual display Preferred embodiments of an image display system achieve mapping of high dynamic range image data to render on a lower dynamic range display device a corresponding image characterized by stable global intensity levels and visually perceptible local area detail. The high... | 01/24/2008 |
| 20080008396 | Context-aware image processing In one respect, provided are systems, methods and techniques in which local regions within an image are processed to provide fuzzy classification scores, which are calculated by determining changes in pixel values along a number of different directions. The resulting fu... | 01/10/2008 |
| 20080002893 | Recognizing text in images Methods, systems, and apparatus including computer program products for recognizing text in images are provided. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method for recognizing text in an image is provided. The method includes receiving a plurality of images. The m... | 01/03/2008 |
| 20060093236 | Video preprocessing temporal and spatial filter The invention refers to an apparatus and a method for reducing random noise in a sequence of digital video frames comprising the following steps: 1. for each of the pixels (center pixel) in a frame a set of adjacent pixels is defined; 2. for each of the adjacent pixels ... | 05/04/2006 |
| 20050271294 | Image binarization apparatus, image binarization method, image pickup apparatus, image pickup method, and a computer product In a digital camera, a CPU divides a multi-valued image into blocks and selects object blocks, which are to be the object of processing. A CCD outputs luminance values of the multi-valued image. A low luminance threshold value setter sets low luminance threshold values ... | 12/08/2005 |
