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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8150197 | Apparatus and method of obtaining high-resolution image An apparatus and method of obtaining a high-resolution image are provided. The apparatus of obtaining a high-resolution image may generate a high frequency component of an output image using a high frequency component of an input image, synthesize the input image an... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8145006 | Image processing apparatus and image processing method capable of reducing an increase in coding distortion due to sharpening According to one embodiment, an image processing apparatus includes a decoder, an acquisition module, a sharpening module, and a controller. The decoder decodes an encoded image to obtain a decoded image. The acquisition module acquires quantization information indi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8059910 | Image processing method for removing noise from an image An image processing method for removing noise contained in an image includes: inputting an original image constituted with a plurality of pixels; generating a plurality of band-limited images, resolution levels of which are lowered in sequence, by executing a specif... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7974490 | Apparatus and method to improve clarity of image Disclosed are an apparatus and method to improve clarity of images, which can prevent the degradation of the clarity of a display unit caused by deterioration of a contrast characteristic. The apparatus includes: an artifact reducing unit determining a representativ... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7957606 | System and method for edge sharpening Presented herein are a system and method for sharpening edges in a region. In one embodiment, there is presented a method for sharpening edges. The method comprises measuring differences between at least a value associated with a first pixel and a value associated w... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7949199 | Image processing method and related apparatus for an image processing system An image processing method for an image processing system for enhancing image quality after a sharpening procedure includes receiving a plurality of original image data, performing the sharpening procedure for the plurality of original image data for generating a pl... | 05/24/2011 |
| 7945111 | Image processing method for adaptively filtering image data An image processing method for filtering image data, which is constituted with a plurality of pixels, at each pixel position by using pixel values indicated by pixels present within a predetermined range containing a target pixel, includes: determining two arguments... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7876973 | Edge ringing artifact suppression methods and apparatuses In some embodiments, the present invention relates to methods or suppressing edge ringing in images. For example, in some embodiments a method of processing an image to suppress ringing and broadened edges induced by image correction processing, includes high-pass f... | 01/25/2011 |
| 7826678 | Adaptive image sharpening method The invention discloses an adaptive image sharpening method for generating a sharpened image area corresponding to an original image area. The original image area includes a plurality of original pixel values. The method includes blurring the original image area to ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7813582 | Method and apparatus for enhancing object boundary precision in an image One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that enhances sharpness of object boundaries in an image. During operation, the system first receives an image. Next, the system computes gradients of color values for pixels in the image. The system then com... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7769241 | Method of sharpening using panchromatic pixels A method of sharpening a full-color image of a scene includes capturing an image of the scene using a two-dimensional sensor array having both color and panchromatic pixels; forming the full-color image in response to the captured color pixels and forming a referenc... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7724980 | System and method for selective sharpening of images Selective Sharpening May Involve Sharpening Only Certain Portions Of an Image Or a certain percentage of the pixels of an image while avoiding over-sharpening already sharp areas and the introduction of signal noise in naturally uniform color and/or sharpness areas.... | 05/25/2010 |
| 7706626 | Digital image reconstruction using inverse spatial filtering A method for processing a source digital image wherein the source digital image is comprised of a plurality of pixels. A spatial filter is applied to the source digital image to produce an enhanced digital image. An inverse spatial filter is applied to the enhanced ... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7653257 | Enhancing video sequence sharpness by adaptive peaking A method of selectively sharpening video data may include, for at least some pixels in the video data, generating a sharpening value for a pixel value in an image. The sharpening value may be amplified in a non-linear manner to produce an amplified value. The pixel ... | 01/26/2010 |
| 7643698 | Image sharpening using diffusion An improved sharpening technique sharpens an image using diffusion rather than a Gaussian blur in the smearing phase. After an appropriate radius or number of passes is determined for the pixels of an image, a diffusive process is applied to the image in the smearin... | 01/05/2010 |
| 7593587 | Spectral feature generation using high-pass filtering for scene anomaly detection A method of detecting an image anomaly (target) within a scene represented by image data comprises obtaining test data from a test window within the scene, combining the test data with reference data to generate combined data, then comparing the combined data with e... | 09/22/2009 |
| 7515765 | Image sharpness management Methods, media, and a system provide image sharpness management for electronic images. Pixel values for an unmodified image are processed relative to spatial frequency bands for that image. An average pixel value is acquired for each of the spatial frequency bands a... | 04/07/2009 |
| 7502524 | Method and apparatus of processing a skin print image In a method and an arrangement for processing a skin print image, and particularly a fingerprint image, which image exists as a gray-level image, provision is made for the gray-level image to be convolved in the direction of two axes (x, y) by generalized gradient f... | 03/10/2009 |
| 7463784 | Image processing method and apparatus for image sharpening An image processing apparatus for sharpening photographic image data obtained through digitization of a photographic image by using a sharpening filter capable of sharpening intensity adjustment. The apparatus includes a parameter determining section for extracting ... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7433084 | Digital de-screening technique for scanned documents A method and system for de-screening an image signal utilizing a bank of filters to provide several increasingly blurred versions of the original image signal is disclosed. At any given time, only two of these blurred versions are created, on a pixel-by-pixel basis.... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7433536 | Method for enhancing a digital image while suppressing undershoots and overshoots A method is provided for enhancing the details of an image while suppressing or preventing shoots that would otherwise occur during a prior art enhancement process. The enhancing method is based on recognizing that Shoots are likely to occur at edges of an image to ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430336 | Method and apparatus for image enhancement for low bit rate video compression A method and apparatus for deblocking and edge enhancement of block based digital video includes determining that two blocks share a common boundary; measuring edge activity of the common boundary, comparing the measured edge activity to a first threshold, filtering... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7430334 | Digital imaging systems, articles of manufacture, and digital image processing methods Digital imaging systems, articles of manufacture, and digital image processing methods are described. According to one aspect, a digital imaging system includes an imaging system configured to provide image data of an image, the image data comprising digital image d... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424167 | Tide filtering for video surveillance system A machine-accessible medium containing software code that, when read by a computer, causes the computer to perform method for filtering a video in a video system. The method may include generating a foreground mask and a background model from a video, where the fore... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424166 | Enhancing the quality of decoded quantized images A system for image enhancement and, more particularly, a system for enhancing the quality of a quantized image. ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7412107 | System and method for robust multi-frame demosaicing and color super-resolution An integrated method for both super-resolution and multi-frame demosaicing includes an image fusion followed by simultaneous deblurring and interpolation. For the case of color super-resolution, the first step involves application of recursive image fusion separatel... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7412106 | Methods for locating and decoding distorted two-dimensional matrix symbols A method is presented for processing an image of a two-dimensional (2D) matrix symbol having a plurality of data modules and a discontinuous finder pattern, each distorted by “donut effects”. A resulting processed image contains an image of the 2D matrix symbol ... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7391919 | Edge correction apparatus, edge correction method, program, and storage medium This invention has as its object to provide an edge correction apparatus which can execute base clip processes optimal to different noise levels depending on the level of an input signal. To this end, an apparatus has a high-frequency extraction circuit for extracti... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7391933 | Method and apparatus for image interpolation based on adaptive polyphase filters An interpolation system interpolates image positions in an original image to produce an interpolated output image, wherein the original image is represented by digital input pixel data. A first filter with a sharp interpolation characteristic, that interpolates a se... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7379213 | Output image adjustment of image data The sharpness of image data is adjusted using image data generated by an image generating device and image generating information that is associated with the image data and includes at least aperture information and operating mode information pertaining to the image... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7379611 | Generic image hallucination Techniques are disclosed to enable generation of a high-resolution image from any generic low-resolution image. In one described implementation, a method includes extracting, at a training phase, a plurality of primal sketch priors from training data. At a synthesis... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7375856 | Halftone screen frequency and magnitude estimation for digital descreening of documents An efficient method and system for eliminating halftone screens from scanned documents while preserving the quality and sharpness of text and line-art is disclosed. The method and system utilizes one or more independent channels with different sensitivities (e.g., M... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373013 | Directional video filters for locally adaptive spatial noise reduction Spatial noise is reduced in an image having a plurality of pixels by detecting object boundaries and unstructured areas in the image and applying 3-tap high pass filters to each pixel in the image in at least four, but less than eight directions to determine the bes... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7372905 | Filtering intensity decision method, moving picture encoding method, and moving picture decoding method A moving picture coding apparatus including an inter-pixel filter having the filters for filtering decoded image data so as to remove block distortion which is high frequency noise around block boundaries. The filters include a filter A114a, a filter B... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373010 | Method and device for post-processing digital images A method of post-processing digital images frequency transforming a set of the pixels to a set of transformed coefficients; extracting original low-frequency coefficients and original high-frequency coefficients from the set of transformed coefficients; correcting t... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7369712 | Automated statistical self-calibrating detection and removal of blemishes in digital images based on multiple occurrences of dust in images A method automatically corrects dust artifact within images acquired by a system including a digital acquisition device including a lens assembly. Multiple original digital images are acquired with the digital acquisition device. Probabilities that certain pixels co... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7366351 | Camera having processor for up-interpolating Bayer image for printing by internal printer A camera is provided comprising a Bayer color filter array arranged to capture an input image as a non-linear Bayer image comprising RGB pixels arranged in Bayer format, a processor and a printer. The processor is arranged to receive the input image, convert the inp... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362912 | Method and system for immediately determining incorrect pixel values of a captured image A method for immediately determining incorrect pixel values of a captured image on an optical mouse, which determines a quality of an image in a video stream captured by the optical mouse and accordingly finds a motion distance for the optical mouse. The method firs... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7359567 | Signal processing apparatus for eliminating ringing signal and method thereof, record medium, and program Image quality degrading components can be eliminated from a contour correction signal of high frequency region that is used for contour correction. A filtering section extracts a high frequency region signal from a signal inputted from a VLPF. A mask generating sect... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359481 | X-ray image diagnostic device An x-ray diagnostic imaging system with an x-ray irradiation unit for irradiating an object; an x-ray diaphragm unit for shielding the irradiated x-rays except for the x-rays irradiated on a portion used for obtaining an x-ray image of the object; an x-ray diaphragm... | 04/15/2008 |
