Image analysis – Image enhancement or restoration
Reexamination Certificate
2011-01-25
2011-01-25
Bhatnagar, Anand (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Image enhancement or restoration
C382S241000, C382S261000, C382S269000, C345S418000, C345S506000, C358S003260
Reexamination Certificate
active
07876971
ABSTRACT:
A system renders a primitive of an image to be displayed, for instance in a mobile 3D graphic pipeline, the primitive including a set of pixels. The system locates the pixels in the area of the primitive, generates, for each pixel located in the area, a set of associated sub-pixels, borrows a set of sub-pixels from neighboring pixels, subjects the set of associated sub-pixels and the borrowed set of pixels to adaptive filtering to create an adaptively filtered set of sub-pixels, and further filters the adaptively filtered set of sub-pixels to compute a final pixel for display. Preferably, the set of associated sub-pixels fulfils at least one of the following: the set includes two associated sub-pixels and the set includes associated sub-pixels placed on pixel edges.
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Barone Massimiliano
Gallizio Edoardo
Gardella Pierluigi
Pau Danilo
Bhatnagar Anand
Chu Randolph
Iannucci Robert
Jorgenson Lisa K.
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