Image analysis – Image enhancement or restoration – Edge or contour enhancement
Reexamination Certificate
2006-09-12
2008-10-07
Bella, Matthew C (Department: 2624)
Image analysis
Image enhancement or restoration
Edge or contour enhancement
C382S132000, C382S263000, C382S269000, C382S275000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07433536
ABSTRACT:
A method is provided for enhancing the details of an image while suppressing or preventing shoots that would otherwise occur during a prior art enhancement process. The enhancing method is based on recognizing that Shoots are likely to occur at edges of an image to be enhanced, and therefore, if the enhancement is sufficiently reduced or even possibly eliminated at the edges of the image, the Shoots that would otherwise occur will be suppressed or even possibly eliminated. A gain suppressing function is used to attenuate the enhancement at the edges of the image. Preferably, the gain suppressing function inherently identifies the edges of the image to be enhanced.
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Bella Matthew C
Myers Dawes Andras & Sherman LLP
Perungavoor Sath V.
Samsung Electronics Co,. Ltd.
Sherman, Esq. Kenneth L.
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