Image superresolution through edge extraction and contrast...

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2005-06-23

2009-11-03

Ahmed, Samir A. (Department: 2624)

Image analysis

Image transformation or preprocessing

Changing the image coordinates

C382S260000, C382S254000, C382S169000, C382S100000, C382S165000, C382S174000, C382S199000, C382S274000, C382S172000, C382S173000, C358S001800, C235S491000

Reexamination Certificate

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07613363

ABSTRACT:
A technique for generating high-resolution bitmaps from low-resolution bitmaps. A low-resolution bitmap is magnified to form a magnified image. Edge detection is performed on the magnified image to find high contrast edges. A plurality of image patches of the magnified image are generated. These images patches are analyzed by performing connected components analysis on each of them using the high contrast edges to produce a plurality of foreground and background decisions determining whether a portion of an image patch is a background or a foreground region. Then the contrast of one or more pixels in each of the plurality of image patches is enhanced based on the foreground and background decisions. Finally, the system and method of the invention combines the luminance of the enhanced output pixels with the color values generated by the magnification algorithm. This produces a high-resolution bitmap from the contrast-enhanced pixels.

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