Image processing method for dodging with softened edge transitio

Details Image processing method for dodging with softened edge transitio Image processing method for dodging with softened edge transitio

1991-04-26

1993-06-08

Weldon, Ulysses

Communications: electrical

Land vehicle alarms or indicators

Internal alarm or indicator responsive to a condition of the...

340728, 340729, G09G 106

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052183505

ABSTRACT:
Image appearance characteristics for a display may be defined by two data sets, a first standard data set for the image, and a second set for the area to be dodged, where the dodged area is separated from the remainder of the image by a series of edges. The appearance of any particular pixel in the original is determined by the first bit, or control plane, of the image data, the state of which indicates that pixel appearance is determined by one of the first or second data sets. To soften the transition of the image from one data set to another data set, at the dodged area edges, a filter function is applied to the control plane values, acting on areas adjacent the edge, to create a distribution of control plane values over an area adjacent to the edge. Error diffusion or dithering of the filtered values is then applied to quantize intermediate values generated by the filter function to legal values giving the illusion that the edge changes gradually from the first data set to the second data set, thereby creating a softened edge effect, using only a single control bit in the image data.

REFERENCES:
patent: 5003303 (1991-03-01), Kellar et al.

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