Television – Camera – system and detail – Combined image signal generator and general image signal...
Reexamination Certificate
2005-05-31
2005-05-31
Garber, Wendy R. (Department: 2612)
Television
Camera, system and detail
Combined image signal generator and general image signal...
C348S246000, C382S275000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06900836
ABSTRACT:
A method for correcting for defects in a digital image taken by an image sensor when there is a pre-existing defect in at least one pixel of the image sensor which causes a line of pixels in the digital image to have corrupted data, includes the steps of capturing the digital image in the image sensor and reading out such digital image to provide the digital image with the line of pixels in the digital image having corrupted data; computing classifiers based on adjacent non-corrupted pixel data which indicate that there is a horizontal edge or a diagonal edge feature which passes through the defective column; and adaptively replacing the data in the corrupted image pixels by selecting an algorithm which correponds to the edge feature identified by the classifier and using the valid data in the neighboring non-corrupted pixels of the selected edge feature.
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Eastman Kodak Company
Garber Wendy R.
Jerabek Kelly L.
Owens Raymond L.
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