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Electronic image color plane reconstruction

US7072509B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateApr 30, 2002
Grant dateJul 4, 2006
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Expiry dateFeb 9, 2024

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N2209/046
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

The color of a color image having at least two sets of image pixels having color and luminance values is corrected by generating, for each color value, a low spatial frequency monochrome image including a set of smoothed image pixels. A color correction function is applied to selected sub-sets of the image pixels to generate corresponding sub-sets of corrected, smoothed image pixels. The correction includes a contribution from smoothed image pixels in one or more of the other sets of smoothed image pixels. The sub-sets of corrected smoothed image pixels is completed by interpolation or extrapolation. Each set of corrected smoothed image pixels is used to generate a corrected color image by generating one or more high spatial frequency luminance images that are combined with each of the corrected low spatial frequency monochrome images to form a full color image.

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