Image analysis – Image enhancement or restoration – Edge or contour enhancement
Reissue Patent
2007-04-13
2010-06-29
Rogers, Scott A (Department: 2625)
Image analysis
Image enhancement or restoration
Edge or contour enhancement
C382S261000, C375S240290, C375S213000, C375S213000, C358S003260
Reissue Patent
active
RE041402
ABSTRACT:
delete-start id="DEL-S-00001" date="20100629" ?A method and apparatus to remove a block effect and a ring effect appearing in a compression-coded image is disclosed. The present invention is especially applicable to an image compression-coded at a low bit rate. In particular, the present invention includes a variety of masks for the removal of the block/ring effect. Thus, one mask is select for a pixel to be filtered. Moreover, candidate pixels to be averaged with the pixel to be filtered is selected from the pixels of the selected mask to better maintain the details of the image, and a weight is applied to improve the calculation speed of the averaging operation. More particularly, the masks according to the present invention have longer tabs toward adjacent blocks at boundaries of the given block to remove the block and ring effect.delete-end id="DEL-S-00001" ?insert-start id="INS-S-00001" date="20100629" ?In one embodiment of the present invention, a pixel of an image is filtered according to a filtering methodology. The filtering methodology includes selecting at least four pixels of successive pixels according to a position of a pixel to be filtered. The selected at least four pixels include the pixel to be filtered. The filtering methodology also includes applying an averaging operation to the selected at least four pixels, and making at least one comparison. With respect to the comparison, a determined value and a threshold are compared. The determined value is based on a difference value, and the difference value is based on two of the successive pixels.insert-end id="INS-S-00001" ?
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