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Image processing apparatus

US4956873A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateJun 6, 1988
Grant dateSep 11, 1990
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Expiry dateJun 6, 2008

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N25/60
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In order to correct the swathe related banding effect often seen on swathe-scanned imagers a vertical smoothing function separates out artifact detail from the idealized image and derives, from this, proportional corrections for each channel within a swathe. In cases where the artifact varies from swathe to swathe a second algorithm is used to obtain correction values for each line of the image.

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