Automatic white balancing via illuminant scoring

Details Automatic white balancing via illuminant scoring Automatic white balancing via illuminant scoring

2007-02-27

2007-02-27

Vu, Ngoc Yen (Department: 2622)

Television

Camera, system and detail

Combined image signal generator and general image signal...

C348S229100, C382S167000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10179650

ABSTRACT:
Automatic white balancing and/or autoexposure as useful in a digital camera extracts color channel gains from comparisons of image colors with reference colors under various color temperature illuminants and/or extracts exposure settings from illuminance mean, illuminance variance, illuminance minimum, and illuminance maximum in areas of an image with a trained neural network.

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