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Image signal processing method and image signal processing device

US5852648A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateMay 22, 1997
Grant dateDec 22, 1998
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Expiry dateMay 22, 2017

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  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG06T2207/30021
  • WIPO fieldComputer technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

A display signal of high contrast is generated by processing an image signal that is acquired from a camera such as an infra-red or X-ray camera. The method involves: dividing a screen into polygons, finding signal intensities of pixels in these polygons by interpolation from the original image signal intensities of pixels corresponding to the vertices of these polygons as a signal intensity LF of a low frequency component; finding the signal intensities HF of high frequency components of these pixels by performing calculation to subtract the signal LF of this low frequency component from the original image signal S at each pixel; finding, for the signal intensities HF of these high frequency components, from a histogram showing the rate of occurrence numbers of the respective signal intensities, a transformation function IHS including the integrated values of these rate of occurrence numbers up to respective signal intensities; transforming the signal intensities of the high frequency components HF into display signal intensities DHF in accordance with this transformation function IHS; and finding the display signal DP of these pixels by adding to the display signals DHF of these …

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