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Image processing method, apparatus, and program

US7308152B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Filing dateOct 22, 2002
Grant dateDec 11, 2007
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Expiry dateSep 3, 2024

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  • Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
  • CPC primaryH04N1/58
  • WIPO fieldAudio-visual technology
  • WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

An image processing method, having the steps of: transforming color image signals representing an original image into a luminance signal and color difference signals; transforming the luminance signal and the color difference signals separately into multi-resolution signals of the level 1 to the level N; applying an inverse multi-resolution transform to the color difference multi-resolution signals, after suppressing the high-frequency components of the level 1 of the color difference multi-resolution signals; applying an inverse multi-resolution transform processing to the luminance multi-resolution signals, after applying a coring processing using a condition for each level different from other levels to the high-frequency signals of each level of the luminance multi-resolution signals; transforming the processed luminance signal and the processed color difference signals into a set of processed color image signals.

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