Image enhancement circuit and method using mean matching/quantiz

Image analysis – Color image processing – Color correction

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382168, 382254, 382274, G06K 900, G06K 940

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060185880

ABSTRACT:
In an image enhancement method and circuit, a luminance signal is extracted from input color signals. Histogram equalization is performed using a cumulative density function of the extracted luminance signal which is input in a screen unit. A transform function is controlled to map a mean level of the extracted luminance signal to itself, so that an adjusted luminance signal is output. The color signals are varied according to the variation of the luminance signals to output compensated color signals. Thus, image contrast is enhanced, and an undistorted color signal is provided at the same time. In order to reduce the hardware of the circuit, an interpolated cumulative density function is obtained by interpolating a quantized cumulative density function of an input luminance image and is used as a transform function. The transform function is controlled to map a mean level of the input luminance image to itself.

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patent: 5862254 (1999-01-01), Kim et al.

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