Facsimile and static presentation processing – Facsimile – Specific signal processing circuitry
Patent
1982-11-15
1984-04-10
Murray, Richard
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Facsimile
Specific signal processing circuitry
358135, H04N 521
Patent
active
044424540
ABSTRACT:
An image processing method is provided for reducing noise in a sampled image, particularly for reducing noise in an image divided into blocks of sampled image elements that are transformed by a linear procedure, such as the Walsh-Hadamard transform, and improved regarding visible noise by non-linear thresholding of the transform coefficients. By operating the process in a hierarchy of stages, each stage employing a block operating on image signals derived from a preceding stage, and by overlapping the blocks processed in each stage, the processed signal from each image element is the linear combination of many transform coefficients from each stage and from each overlapped block within each stage. Such a large number of contributions making up each processed image element assures that the processed image is generated without a characteristic block-like structure due to block transform processing while the wanted components of the image are rendered with minimal image loss or distortion.
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Eastman Kodak Company
Murray Richard
Woods David M.
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