Image analysis – Pattern recognition – Template matching
Reexamination Certificate
2011-07-05
2011-07-05
Le, Brian Q (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Pattern recognition
Template matching
C382S217000, C382S218000, C382S219000, C382S220000, C382S221000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07974473
ABSTRACT:
This invention consists in an image processing method in which the similarity between a first pixel and a second pixel constituting an image is numerically given by statistical testing, and the values of the first and second pixels are averaged when the similarity numerically given is high, whereas the first and second pixel values are not averaged when the determined similarity is low, whereby an image with noises suppressed is obtained without spoiling a spatial resolution as well as a temporal resolution.
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Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
Le Brian Q
Oblon, Spivak McClelland, Maier & Neustadt, L.L.P.
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