Facsimile and static presentation processing – Facsimile – Specific signal processing circuitry
Patent
1989-07-31
1991-11-05
Groody, James J.
Facsimile and static presentation processing
Facsimile
Specific signal processing circuitry
358 22, H04N 514
Patent
active
050634488
ABSTRACT:
The apparatus and method employ a variety of units, including Laplacian filters, rank value filters, edge detectors, gain units and summation units, to transform an input digitized signal of an image, the transformation being carried out for each pixel independently. The various elements are combined to produce a variety of desired visual effects, e.g. a brush stroke effect, edge enhancement or the appearance of a reflective chrome surface. Further, an apparatus is provided in which a conditioning unit generates a conditioning function, which enables different parts of an image to be combined in accordance with different methods. Thus, a foreground of an image could have the edge content reinforced, whilst the background has brushstroke texture added.
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Thresholding Techniques from [1], vol. 2.
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Bronskill John F.
Jaffray Ian
Groody James J.
Harvey David E.
Imageware Research and Development Inc.
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